Experimental Demonstration of Orbital-Angular

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Experimental Demonstration of Orbital-AngularMomentum Demultiplexing using an Optical FFT in the Spatial Domain Hao Huang1, Guodong Xie1, Nisar Ahmed1, Yongxiong Ren1, Yan Yan1, Martin P. J. Lavery2, Miles J. Padgett2, Sam Dolinar3, and Alan E. Willner1 1.

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Email: [email protected] 2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom 3. Jet Propulsion Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Abstract: we demonstrate orbital angular momentum modes separation using a geometrical transform-based mode sorter combined with a spatial Fast Fourier Transform. The observed crosstalk between the adjacent modes is