All-fiber orbital-angular-momentum mode encoding system based on helical fiber gratings

Yu Chen; Ming Gao; Yutao Wang; Xinyue Huang; Hui Hao; Xiaoqi Ni; Huali Lu; Hua Zhao; Peng Wang; Xin Wang; Hongpu Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.544533

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 960(2025)

All-fiber orbital-angular-momentum mode encoding system based on helical fiber gratings

Yu Chen^1,2、†, Ming Gao^1,2、†, Yutao Wang^1,2, Xinyue Huang^1,2, Hui Hao^1,2, Xiaoqi Ni^1,2, Huali Lu^1,2, Hua Zhao^1,2、*, Peng Wang^3,4, Xin Wang⁴, and Hongpu Li^5,6

Author Affiliations

¹School of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China

²Intelligent Optoelectronic Sensing Technology Innovation Center, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China

³College of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China

⁴Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

⁵Faculty of the Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan

⁶e-mail: ri.kofu@shizuoka.ac.jp

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Oct. 10, 2024

Accepted: Jan. 22, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 28, 2025

The Author Email: Hua Zhao (zhaohua@njnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.544533

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.544533

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