• Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046008 (2023)
Ling Hong, Haoxu Guo, Xiaodong Qiu, Fei Lin, Wuhong Zhang*, and Lixiang Chen*
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  • Xiamen University, Department of Physics, Xiamen, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.2.4.046008 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ling Hong, Haoxu Guo, Xiaodong Qiu, Fei Lin, Wuhong Zhang, Lixiang Chen. Experimental optical computing of complex vector convolution with twisted light[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, 2(4): 046008 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Orbital angular momentum (OAM), emerging as an inherently high-dimensional property of photons, has boosted information capacity in optical communications. However, the potential of OAM in optical computing remains almost unexplored. Here, we present a highly efficient optical computing protocol for complex vector convolution with the superposition of high-dimensional OAM eigenmodes. We used two cascaded spatial light modulators to prepare suitable OAM superpositions to encode two complex vectors. Then, a deep-learning strategy is devised to decode the complex OAM spectrum, thus accomplishing the optical convolution task. In our experiment, we succeed in demonstrating 7-, 9-, and 11-dimensional complex vector convolutions, in which an average proximity better than 95% and a mean relative error <6 % are achieved. Our present scheme can be extended to incorporate other degrees of freedom for a more versatile optical computing in the high-dimensional Hilbert space.
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    Ling Hong, Haoxu Guo, Xiaodong Qiu, Fei Lin, Wuhong Zhang, Lixiang Chen. Experimental optical computing of complex vector convolution with twisted light[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, 2(4): 046008
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