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| author | Harling, Mitchell Stevenson, Chandler Abouraddy, Ayman F. Toussaint Jr, Kimani C. |
| author_facet | Harling, Mitchell Stevenson, Chandler Abouraddy, Ayman F. Toussaint Jr, Kimani C. |
| contents | In optical communications, logical bits are encoded in physical degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of the electromagnetic field. Consequently, optical scattering in a communications channel compromises the information transfer. In the worst-case-scenario, bit-to-bit stochastically varying scattering that couples the DoFs to each other -including even unused DoFs -can decouple the transmitter and receiver when relying on conventional physical encoding schemes, and preclude the utilization of adaptive techniques as a counter-measure. Here we show that partially coherent optical fields help circumvent the worst-case-scenario of rapidly varying, strong optical scattering, even when the channel is rendered informationally opaque for conventional approaches. Using a channel in which the spatial and polarization DoFs are relevant, we encode the logical bits in the unitarily invariant coherence rank (the number of non-zero eigenvalues of the field coherence matrix) and prepare our partially coherent fields with maximal entropies of 0, 1, 1.585, and 2 bits for rank-1, rank-2, rank-3, and rank-4 coherence matrices, respectively. This scheme demonstrates scattering-immune optical communications with 100 % fidelity. These results unveil an unexpected utility for partially coherent light in optical communications through challenging environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Optical communications through highly scattering channels using the coherence-rank Harling, Mitchell Stevenson, Chandler Abouraddy, Ayman F. Toussaint Jr, Kimani C. Optics In optical communications, logical bits are encoded in physical degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of the electromagnetic field. Consequently, optical scattering in a communications channel compromises the information transfer. In the worst-case-scenario, bit-to-bit stochastically varying scattering that couples the DoFs to each other -including even unused DoFs -can decouple the transmitter and receiver when relying on conventional physical encoding schemes, and preclude the utilization of adaptive techniques as a counter-measure. Here we show that partially coherent optical fields help circumvent the worst-case-scenario of rapidly varying, strong optical scattering, even when the channel is rendered informationally opaque for conventional approaches. Using a channel in which the spatial and polarization DoFs are relevant, we encode the logical bits in the unitarily invariant coherence rank (the number of non-zero eigenvalues of the field coherence matrix) and prepare our partially coherent fields with maximal entropies of 0, 1, 1.585, and 2 bits for rank-1, rank-2, rank-3, and rank-4 coherence matrices, respectively. This scheme demonstrates scattering-immune optical communications with 100 % fidelity. These results unveil an unexpected utility for partially coherent light in optical communications through challenging environments. |
| title | Optical communications through highly scattering channels using the coherence-rank |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19683 |