The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light for Next Generation Optical Switches

Mirco Scaffardi,M. N. Malik,Ning Zhang,Piotr Rydlichowski,V. Toccafondo,Charalambos Klitis,Martin P. J. Lavery,Jiangbo Zhu,Xinlun Cai,Siyuan Yu,G Preve,M. Sorel,Antonella Bogoni

The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light for Next Generation Optical Switches

2018

Mirco Scaffardi
M. N. Malik
Ning Zhang
Piotr Rydlichowski
V. Toccafondo
Charalambos Klitis
Martin P. J. Lavery
Jiangbo Zhu
Xinlun Cai
Siyuan Yu
G Preve
M. Sorel
Antonella Bogoni

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) and wavelength are exploited to build a two-layer switch based on an integrated OAM multiplexer. The switch effectively supports real data traffic and shows significant power consumption reduction compared to single-layer implementations, enabling >160 ports count.

Keywords:

Angular momentum
Electronic engineering
Optics
Orbital angular momentum of light
Optical switch
Multiplexer
Engineering
Wavelength
data traffic
power consumption

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