Journal on Communications ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 217-232.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2021148

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Research progress of optical signal processing with orbital angular momentum

Jun LIU, Jian WANG   

  1. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Revised:2021-06-03 Online:2021-11-25 Published:2021-11-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFB2203604);The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFB2200204);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(11774116);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62001182);The Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2018B030325002);The National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals;The Central University Basic Business Expenses Special Funding for Scientific Research Project(2019kfyRCPY037)

Abstract:

Light beams carrying OAM (orbital angular momentum) exploit the transverse spatial distribution of photons and have helical phase front.In recent years, similar to the WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing) technology, OAM multiplexing technology has attracted widespread interest and made remarkable progress in high-speed and large-capacity optical signal transmission.It is worth noting that, optical signal processing is also the key technology of optical communication systems in addition to optical signal transmission.A complete OAM-based optical communication network system includes both OAM multiplexing transmission along network links and OAM signal processing at network nodes.The research progress of optical signal processing with OAM were reviewed, and different optical signal processing functions with OAM and the various OAM-based optical signal processing technologies in different application scenarios were comprehensively summarized.Meanwhile, the future development trend of optical signal processing with OAM was analyzed and its prospect was discussed.The optical signal processing technologies with OAM improve the OAM-based space-division multiplexing optical communication systems, which is expected to provide solutions for realizing efficient and flexible information management of OAM and addressing the new capacity crunch of optical communications.

Key words: optical communications, space dimension of photon, orbital angular momentum, optical signal processing

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