High-Power Orbital Angular Momentum Beam Generation Using Adaptive Control System Based on Mode Selective Photonic Lantern

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-fiber adaptive spatial control system with a mode selective photonic lantern as the core device to generate orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. A 3 × 1 mode selective photonic lantern has been designed and fabricated, which can easily guide OAM modes. The stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm is used to control the phase of each input channel. A stable OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> mode with a mode purity of 0.98 is obtained in a 30/130 μm fiber, and a 50W stable quasi-OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> mode beam is achieved after power scaling in a 42/250 μm output fiber. This system cannot only compensate the atmosphere turbulence effects on transmission distortion, but also be improved to generate switchable OAM modes with different topological charges, which provides great possibility of application in practical communication system.