Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.033057
Abstract
The transverse structure of light is recognized as a resource that can be used to encode information onto photons and has been shown to be useful to enhance communication capacity as well as resolve point sources in superresolution imaging. The Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes form a complete and orthonormal basis set and are described by a radial index p and an orbital angular momentum (OAM) index ℓ. Earlier works have shown how to build a sorter for the radial index p or/and the OAM index ℓ of LG modes, but a scalable and dedicated LG mode sorter which simultaneous determinate p and ℓ is immature. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme to accomplish complete LG mode sorting, which consists of a novel, robust radial mode sorter that can be used to couple radial modes to polarizations, an ℓ-dependent phase shifter and an OAM mode sorter. Our scheme is in principle efficient, scalable, and crosstalk-free, and therefore has potential for applications in optical communications, quantum information technology, superresolution imaging, and fiber optics.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Optics Express, v. 26, issue 25, p. 33057-33065
© 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Scholar Commons Citation
Fu, Dongzhi; Zhou, Yiyu; Qi, Rui; Oliver, Stone; Wang, Yunlong; Rafsanjani, Seyed M. H.; Zhao, Jiapeng; Mirhosseini, Mohammad; Shi, Zhimin; Zhang, Pei; and Boyd, Robert W., "Realization of a Scalable Laguerre–Gaussian Mode Sorter based on a Robust Radial Mode Sorter" (2018). Physics Faculty Publications. 31.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phy_facpub/31
