Mode properties and propagation effects of optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in a ring fiber

Yang Yue; Yan Yan; Nisar Ahmed; Jeng Yuan Yang; Lin Zhang; Yongxiong Ren; Hao Huang; Kevin M. Birnbaum; Baris I. Erkmen; Sam Dolinar; Moshe Tur; Alan E. Willner

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2192474

Mode properties and propagation effects of optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in a ring fiber

Yang Yue^*, Yan Yan, Nisar Ahmed, Jeng Yuan Yang, Lin Zhang, Yongxiong Ren, Hao Huang, Kevin M. Birnbaum, Baris I. Erkmen, Sam Dolinar, Moshe Tur, Alan E. Willner

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We simulate and analyze the mode properties and propagation effects of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in a ring fiber. A ring fiber with 0.05 up-doping is designed in simulation to support up to 10 OAM modes while maintaining single-mode condition radially. With a multiple-ring fiber, tens of OAM modes can be potentially multiplexed to greatly enhance the system capacity and spectral efficiency. The mode index difference can be maintained above 10 ^-4 over hundreds of nanometers optical bandwidth. Higher order OAM modes' azimuthal intensity and odd-order OAM modes' azimuthal phase show better tolerance to the fiber ellipticity. Moreover, higher order OAM modes also have longer 2π and 10-ps walk-off length. After 600-km propagation, OAM _0,4 mode shows < 10-ps mode walk-off, even in a ring fiber with 1% ellipticity. Also, in such an elliptical fiber, the well-aligned OAM modes with different charges have < -20 dB intermode crosstalk. The improvement of the circularity for the ring fiber is expected to reduce the crosstalk and increase the demultiplexing efficiency.

Original language	English
Article number	6177999
Pages (from-to)	535-543
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Photonics Journal
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2192474
State	Published - 2012

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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Fiber optics systems
multiplexing
optics
orbital angular momentum
waveguides

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