Mode-Selective Photonic Lanterns for Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing

Yan Li; Yang Li; Lipeng Feng; Chen Yang; Wei Li; Jifang Qiu; Xiaobin Hong; Yong Zuo; Hongxiang Guo; Weijun Tong; Jian Wu

doi:10.3390/app9112233

Applied Sciences (May 2019)

Mode-Selective Photonic Lanterns for Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing

Yan Li,
Yang Li,
Lipeng Feng,
Chen Yang,
Wei Li,
Jifang Qiu,
Xiaobin Hong,
Yong Zuo,
Hongxiang Guo,
Weijun Tong,
Jian Wu

Affiliations

Yan Li: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Yang Li: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Lipeng Feng: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Chen Yang: State Key Laboratory of Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacture Technology, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Wuhan 430074, China
Wei Li: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Jifang Qiu: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Xiaobin Hong: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Yong Zuo: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Hongxiang Guo: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Weijun Tong: State Key Laboratory of Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacture Technology, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Wuhan 430074, China
Jian Wu: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112233
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 11
p. 2233

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We analyze the mode evolution in mode-selective photonic lanterns with respect to taper lengths, affected by possible mode phase differences varying along the taper. As a result, we design a three-mode orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode-selective photonic lantern by optimizing the taper length with mode crosstalk below −24 dB, which employs only one single mode fiber port to selectively generate one OAM mode.

Published in Applied Sciences

ISSN: 2076-3417 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Biology (General); Science: Physics; Science: Chemistry
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