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Published March 6, 2019 | Supplemental Material + Published
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Optical orbital-angular-momentum-multiplexed data transmission under high scattering

Abstract

Multiplexing multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) channels enables high-capacity optical communication. However, optical scattering from ambient microparticles in the atmosphere or mode coupling in optical fibers significantly decreases the orthogonality between OAM channels for demultiplexing and eventually increases crosstalk in communication. Here, we propose a novel scattering-matrix-assisted retrieval technique (SMART) to demultiplex OAM channels from highly scattered optical fields and achieve an experimental crosstalk of –13.8 dB in the parallel sorting of 24 OAM channels after passing through a scattering medium. The SMART is implemented in a self-built data transmission system that employs a digital micromirror device to encode OAM channels and realize reference-free calibration simultaneously, thereby enabling a high tolerance to misalignment. We successfully demonstrate high-fidelity transmission of both gray and color images under scattering conditions at an error rate of <0.08%. This technique might open the door to high-performance optical communication in turbulent environments.

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© 2019 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Received 11 September 2018; Revised 28 January 2019; Accepted 17 February 2019; Published 06 March 2019. Data availability: Data supporting the findings in this study are available within the article and its supplementary information files and from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. We thank Dr. Haowei Wang, Panpan Yu, and Xuanling Li for insightful discussions on the work. The authors appreciate Prof. Dong-Sheng Ding's critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grants 61535011, 11704369, and 11374292. K.H. thanks support from the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program, 'the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities' in China, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 61705085 and 61875181). Authors contributions: L.G., K.H, and Y.L. conceived the project. L.G. and Q.Z. designed the research, built the system, and performed the experiments. Q.Z. and H.Z. wrote the codes for the experiments. X.H. contributed to the hardware and software control of the system. K.H. contributed to the data transmission experiments. J.Y. participated in the data processing. L.G., Q.Z., and K.H. analyzed the experimental results and wrote the manuscript. Y.L. provided overall supervision. All authors were involved in revising the manuscript.

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