Search Results - "Willner, Alan"
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Terabit-Scale Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing in Fibers
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-06-2013)“…Internet data traffic capadty is rapidly reaching limits imposed by optical fiber nonlinear effects. Having almost exhausted available degrees of freedom to…”
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All-Optical Signal Processing
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (15-02-2014)“…Optical signal processing brings together various fields of optics and signal processing - namely, nonlinear devices and processes, analog and digital signals,…”
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Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material
Published in Nature communications (01-05-2020)“…Space-time duality in paraxial optical wave propagation implies the existence of intriguing effects when light interacts with a material exhibiting two…”
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Vector-mode multiplexing brings an additional approach for capacity growth in optical fibers
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Orbital Angular Momentum Beams for High-Capacity Communications
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (01-04-2023)“…There is a growing interest in structured light, especially orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, due to its unique amplitude and phase structure. Multiple…”
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Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing
Published in Nature photonics (01-07-2012)“…The recognition in the 1990s that light beams with a helical phase front have orbital angular momentum has benefited applications ranging from optical…”
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Utilizing Structured Modal Beams in Free-Space Optical Communications for Performance Enhancement
Published in IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics (01-11-2023)“…There is a growing interest in utilizing structured beams in free-space optical (FSO) communications. With uniquely tailored spatial amplitude and phase…”
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Sorting Photons by Radial Quantum Number
Published in Physical review letters (29-12-2017)“…The Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes constitute a complete basis set for representing the transverse structure of a paraxial photon field in free space. Earlier…”
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A Different Angle on Light Communications
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-08-2012)“…Can “twisted” light beams enhance optical communication systems? A conventional propagating free-space laser beam typically has an approximately flat phase…”
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High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength- and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region
Published in Nature communications (10-12-2022)“…Due to its absorption properties in atmosphere, the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region has gained interest for its potential to provide high data capacity in…”
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Optical Signal Processing Aided by Optical Frequency Combs
Published in IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics (01-03-2021)“…This paper highlights certain optical signal processing (OSP) functions that can be achieved when using optical frequency combs. An optical frequency comb can…”
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Perspective on using multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams for enhanced capacity in free-space optical communication links
Published in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) (01-01-2021)“…Structured light has gained much interest in increasing communications capacity through the simultaneous transmission of multiple orthogonal beams. This paper…”
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Recent advances in high-capacity free-space optical and radio-frequency communications using orbital angular momentum multiplexing
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (28-02-2017)“…There is a continuing growth in the demand for data bandwidth, and the multiplexing of multiple independent data streams has the potential to provide the…”
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High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing
Published in Nature communications (16-09-2014)“…One property of electromagnetic waves that has been recently explored is the ability to multiplex multiple beams, such that each beam has a unique helical…”
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Automatic Turbulence Resilience in Pilot-Assisted Self-Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (15-05-2024)“…Free-space optical (FSO) communications has potential advantages of higher data capacity and lower probability of interception, when compared to…”
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Silicon waveguide with four zero-dispersion wavelengths and its application in on-chip octave-spanning supercontinuum generation
Published in Optics express (16-01-2012)“…We propose a novel silicon waveguide that exhibits four zero-dispersion wavelengths for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, with a flattened…”
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Flattened dispersion in silicon slot waveguides
Published in Optics express (13-09-2010)“…We propose a silicon strip/slot hybrid waveguide that produces flattened dispersion of 0 ± 16 ps/(nm∙km), over a 553-nm wavelength range, which is 20 times…”
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Advances in Multi-Channel Mid-IR Free-Space Optical Communications
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (01-10-2024)“…Free-space optical (FSO) communications in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region has gained increasing interest due, in part, to the lower atmospheric…”
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All-Optical Signal Processing Techniques for Flexible Networks
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (01-01-2019)“…This tutorial highlights challenges and opportunities in achieving efficient flexible optical networks. Optical signal processing may potentially increase…”
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High-Capacity Free-Space Optical Communications Between a Ground Transmitter and a Ground Receiver via a UAV Using Multiplexing of Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams
Published in Scientific reports (12-12-2017)“…We explore the use of orbital-angular-momentum (OAM)-multiplexing to increase the capacity of free-space data transmission to moving platforms, with an added…”
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