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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
Spatial phase information transmission through an optical fiber by coherence function synthesis
Abstract:
Transmission of one-dimensional spatial phase information by low-coherence light through a single-mode optical fiber is experimentally demonstrated by use of space-time conversion at a 4-f Fourier coherence function shaper and time-space conversion with spectral holography. The dispersion during the fiber propagation can be automatically compensated for with spectral holography. However, space-time coupling caused by the transmitter limits the capacity of information transmittable with one coherence function shaping. A significant advantage in the space-time-space conversion with low-coherence light is that an infinite number of signal channels can be multiplexed with a newly invented delay-time division scheme, which can extend this analog transmission to two-dimensional spatial phase patterns.
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