Modeling Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Transmission in Waveguides with the COMSOL Multiphysics® Software

A. Cagliero [1], R. Gaffoglio [1], A. De Vita [2], B. Sacco [2],
[1] Department of Physics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
[2] Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Torino, Italy
Published in 2016

The recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the possibility of enhancing the information transfer per unit bandwidth by exploiting the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light in both free-space and guided scenarios. In the proposed paper, the propagation of suitable OAM superpositions of waveguide eigenmodes in guiding structures with a circular symmetry is analyzed both theoretically and with the aid of the software COMSOL Multiphysics®, leading to the estimation of the power attenuation constants due to the finite conductivity of the metallic guide walls.