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Single-shot phase retrieval for randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beams

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Vortex beams with orbital angular momentum play a crucial role in increasing the information capacity in optical communications. The magnitude of orbital angular momentum determines the ability of information encoding. In practice, a vortex beam can encounter random objects or turbulence during free-space propagation, resulting in information damage. Therefore, accurately measuring the orbital angular momentum of a randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beam is a considerable challenge. Herein, we propose a single-shot method for the phase retrieval of a randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beam by combining the phase-shift theorem and self-reference holography. Experimental results reveal that the sign and magnitude of the initial orbital angular momentum can be simultaneously determined based on their quantitative relation with the number of coherence singularities on the observation plane, thus addressing the effects of random occlusion and atmospheric turbulence. The proposed method considerably improved the accurate decoding of orbital angular momentum information in nonideal freespace optical communications.

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  1. School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China

    Hao Zhang, Jun’an Zhu, Xingyuan Lu, Zhiquan Hu, Jianbo Gao, Kun Liu & Chengliang Zhao

  2. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China

    Qiwen Zhan

  3. Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China

    Yangjian Cai

  4. Joint Research Center of Light Manipulation Science and Photonic Integrated Chip of East China Normal University and Shandong Normal University, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2022YFA1404800, and 2019YFA0705000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12174280, 12204340, 12192254, 11974218, 92250304, and 92050202), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2022M722325), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. KJS2138).

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Zhang, H., Zhu, J., Lu, X. et al. Single-shot phase retrieval for randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beams. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 244211 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2290-8

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