Abstract

An ultra-wideband orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) mode generator has been proposed and demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally, which is based on a helical long period fiber grating (HLPG) but written in a graded-index few-mode fiber (GIFMF). Unlike all the HLPG-based broadband OAM generators reported to date, where the utilized HLPG (fabricated only in step-index fibers) all were operated at wavelengths very close to the dispersion-turning point (DTP), the GIFMF-based HLPG proposed in this study is, however, operated at wavelengths far from its DTP, which provides a new and robust method enabling to produce a ultra-wideband OAM mode generator with an ultra-high conversion-efficiency and yet with a great flexibility in controlling the central wavelength of itself. As a typical example, the first-order OAM mode generator with a central wavelength of ∼1510 nm, a bandwidth of ∼235 nm, and a conversion-efficiency larger than 99% (∼20.7 dB) has been successfully obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report for practical demonstration of the GIFMF-based HLPG.

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