Skip to main content
Elsevier

Optical Fibers for Orbital Angular Momentum

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Yang Yue, Zhongqi Pan, Cong Liu, Wenqian Zhao, Wenpu Geng
  • Language: English

Optical Fibers for Orbital Angular Momentum comprehensively explores optical fibers for orbital angular momentum (OAM), covering fundamental principles, fiber structures, mode g… Read more

Back to School

Start strong. Study with purpose.

Save up to 25% on trusted learning resources

Shop now

Description

Optical Fibers for Orbital Angular Momentum comprehensively explores optical fibers for orbital angular momentum (OAM), covering fundamental principles, fiber structures, mode generation techniques, devices, applications, and future research directions. The book provides a structured and in-depth understanding of OAM in optical fibers where readers will learn the theoretical foundations, fiber structures supporting OAM modes, fabrication and characterization techniques, generation methods, and diverse applications. The book also addresses challenges and future research directions, equipping readers with knowledge to advance this rapidly evolving field.

Key features

  • Introduces the fundamental concepts of orbital angular momentum (OAM), explaining its theoretical basis, mathematical framework, and key properties
  • Explores OAM mode propagation in optical fibers, detailing fiber types that support OAM, challenges in maintaining mode purity, and experimental realizations
  • Discusses fiber-based OAM generation techniques, analyzing periodic structures, coupling-induced methods, and other advanced generation strategies
  • Examines passive and active OAM fiber devices including multiplexers, demultiplexers, lasers, amplifiers, and isolators
  • Highlights real-world applications of OAM fibers covering classical and quantum communications, sensing, imaging, and nonlinear optics

Readership

Graduate students, researchers, engineers, scientists, and industry professionals involved in optical engineering, photonics, and telecommunication

Table of contents

Part 1: Fundamentals of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM)

1. Introduction to OAM

2. OAM Modes in Fiber

Part 2: Optical Fibers Supporting OAM Modes

3. Step-Index Fiber

4. Ring Fiber

5. Other Fibers

Part 3: OAM Fiber Design, Fabrication, and Characterization

6. OAM Fiber Design

7. OAM Fiber Fabrication

8. OAM Fiber Characterization

Part 4: OAM Beam Generation Using Fiber

9. Periodic-Structure-Based Generation

10. Coupling-Induced Generation

11. Other Generation Methods

Part 5: OAM Fiber Device

12. Passive Fiber Device

13. Active Fiber Device

Part 6: Applications of OAM in Optical Fibers

14. Classical Communications

15. Quantum Communications

16. Sensing and Imaging

17. Nonlinearity

18. Other Emerging Applications

Part 7: Challenges and Future Directions

19. Current Challenges

20. Research Trends and Future Outlook

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

YY

Yang Yue

Yang Yue is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. His research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chips.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

ZP

Zhongqi Pan

Zhongqi Pan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States. His research is in the area of optical fiber communications, including photonic devices, wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) technologies, optical performance monitoring, coherent optical communications, and space-division-multiplexing (SDM) technologies.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

CL

Cong Liu

Cong Liu is a hardware engineer with Nokia, Murray Hill, United States. Her research interests include optical communications and networking, free-space and fiber optics, quantum optics, and nonlinear optics.

Affiliations and expertise
Hardware Engineer, Nokia Corporation, Murray Hill, USA

WZ

Wenqian Zhao

Wenqian Zhao is studying for his PhD in information and communications engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests are optical communication systems and optical fiber.
Affiliations and expertise
Student, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

WG

Wenpu Geng

Wenpu Geng is studying for her PhD in optical engineering at the Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Her research interests include optical fiber, nonlinear optics, and integrated photonics.

Affiliations and expertise
Student, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China