Flexible orbital angular momentum mode switching in multimode fibre using an optical neural network chip
作者机构:Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic InformationHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan 430074HubeiChina Optics Valley LaboratoryWuhan 430074HubeiChina
出 版 物:《Light(Advanced Manufacturing)》 (光(先进制造)(英文))
年 卷 期:2024年第5卷第3期
页 面:16-27页
学科分类:0809[工学-电子科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)] 08[工学]
基 金:supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(62125503,62261160388) Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China(2023AFA028) Key R&D Program of Hubei Province of China(2020BAB001,2021BAA024) Innovation Project of Optics Valley Laboratory(OVL2021BG004)
主 题:Orbital angular momentum Mode switching Fibre-chip-fibre Mode-division multiplexing Optical neural network chip Silicon photonics
摘 要:Mode-division multiplexing technology has been proposed as a crucial technique for enhancing communication capacity and alleviating growing communication *** switching,which is an essential component of optical communication systems,enables information exchange between ***,existing optical switching solutions are inadequate for addressing flexible information exchange among the mode *** this study,we introduced a flexible mode switching system in a multimode fibre based on an optical neural network *** system utilised the flexibility of on-chip optical neural networks along with an all-fibre orbital angular momentum(OAM)mode multiplexer-demultiplexer to achieve mode switching among the three OAM modes within a multimode *** system adopted an improved gradient descent algorithm to achieve training for arbitrary 3×3 exchange matrices and ensured maximum crosstalk of less than-18.7 dB,thus enabling arbitrary inter-mode channel information *** proposed optical-neural-network-based mode-switching system was experimentally validated by successfully transmitting different modulation formats across various *** innovative solution holds promise for providing effective optical switching in practical multimode communication networks.