All-Fiber Multiplexing and Transmission of High-Order Circularly Polarized Orbital Angular Momentum Modes With Mode Selective Couplers

Junfeng Yang; Huanhuan Liu; Fufei Pang; Jianxiang Wen; Haoqiang Zheng; Lifei Chen; Xinyu He; Yana Shang; Na Chen; Yingchun Li; Tingyun Wang

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2910847

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2019)

All-Fiber Multiplexing and Transmission of High-Order Circularly Polarized Orbital Angular Momentum Modes With Mode Selective Couplers

Junfeng Yang,
Huanhuan Liu,
Fufei Pang,
Jianxiang Wen,
Haoqiang Zheng,
Lifei Chen,
Xinyu He,
Yana Shang,
Na Chen,
Yingchun Li,
Tingyun Wang

Affiliations

Junfeng Yang: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Huanhuan Liu: ORCiD; Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Fufei Pang: ORCiD; Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Jianxiang Wen: ORCiD; Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Haoqiang Zheng: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Lifei Chen: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Xinyu He: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Yana Shang: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Na Chen: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Yingchun Li: Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Tingyun Wang: ORCiD; Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2910847
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 1 – 9

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We have demonstrated an all-fiber high-order circularly polarized (CP) orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes (de)multiplexing system based on second-order mode selective couplers (SMSCs). Such SMSCs combining standard single mode fiber and ring core fiber (RCF) are fabricated by a fusing and pulling technique, in which the RCF supports second-order vector modes (HE31 and EH11). During a pulling process, the HE31 and EH11 modes could be excited along the coupling region through evanescent wave interaction. By adjusting the polarization states, the excited second-order modes are transformed into two sets of second-order CP OAM (CP-OAM±2) modes and then transmit along the RCF. The second-order CP-OAM±2 modes, carrying a 2.95-Gb/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals filled with the 16-level quadrature amplitude modulation signals, are successfully (de)multiplexed and propagated over a 3.7-km RCF. The experimental investigations show that the developed system to multiplex and transmit CP-OAM±2 can achieve forward error correction threshold that the received optical power is larger than -13 dBm. The obtained results show that the OAM modes can be generated, (de)multiplexed, and effectively transmitted in the RCF with favorable performance by the designed SMSCs.

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ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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