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Research in Optical Sciences

Towards Quantum Communication with more than 4 bits/photon: Near-Perfect Sorting of the Orbital Angular Momentum Modes of Light

Mehul Malik, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Zhimin Shi, Robert W. Boyd

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a method that uses a series of optical transformations to sort the orbital angular momentum and the mutually-unbiased angular position modes of light with a separation efficiency of more than 92%.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2014.qw3a.6

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