Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 29, Issue 2, 331(2009)

Research on the Beam with Orbital Angular Momentum Used in Encoding and Decoding of Optical Communication

Lü Hong* and Ke Xizheng
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    Non-diffracting beams possess advantages of better direction and far distance for applications to free-space communications. During free propagation, their profiles of transverse intensity remain nearly invariant in a range. Some non-diffracting beams have orbital angular momentum. By analyzing the characteristic of the beam with orbital angular momentum and non-diffracting beams transmission, the computer-generated hologram was used as spatial light modulator with reflective phase modulation to implement optical transformation. Laguerre-Gaussian beam carrying the information is transformed to a higher-order Bessel non-diffractive beam with the same topological charge by a mode converter consistina of axicon. A method of encoding and decoding of optical communication was proposed based on the non-diffracting high-order Bessel beams with orbital angular momentum. The proposed approach not only ensures the security of atmospheric laser communication, but also improves the density and precision of information transmission greatly.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Apr. 28, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 23, 2009

    The Author Email: Hong Lü (lh511@sina.com)

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