Optical Fibers for Orbital Angular Momentum

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.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.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.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. 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.

• Part 1: Fundamentals of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM)1. Introduction to OAM2. OAM Modes in FiberPart 2: Optical Fibers Supporting OAM Modes3. Step-Index Fiber4. Ring Fiber5. Other FibersPart 3: OAM Fiber Design, Fabrication, and Characterization6. OAM Fiber Design7. OAM Fiber Fabrication8. OAM Fiber CharacterizationPart 4: OAM Beam Generation Using Fiber9. Periodic-Structure-Based Generation10. Coupling-Induced Generation11. Other Generation MethodsPart 5: OAM Fiber Device12. Passive Fiber Device13. Active Fiber DevicePart 6: Applications of OAM in Optical Fibers14. Classical Communications15. Quantum Communications16. Sensing and Imaging17. Nonlinearity18. Other Emerging ApplicationsPart 7: Challenges and Future Directions19. Current Challenges20. Research Trends and Future Outlook