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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Citations
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Overview

Zhe Zhao is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans across multiple interconnected fields, primarily focused within Engineering and Physics and Astronomy.

Their work emphasizes subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices

Zhao has contributed to recent publications such as:

  • High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength- and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields, 2023, Journal of Optics
  • Perspectives on advances in high-capacity, free-space communications using multiplexing of orbital-angular-momentum beams, 2021, APL Photonics
  • Turbulence-resilient pilot-assisted self-coherent free-space optical communications using automatic optoelectronic mixing of many modes, 2021, Nature Photonics
  • Adiabatic Frequency Conversion Using a Time-Varying Epsilon-Near-Zero Metasurface, 2021, Nano Letters

Their frequent co-authors include Hao Song, Moshe Tur, Kai Pang, Runzhou Zhang, and Haoqian Song.

Zhao's publications commonly appear in journals and conferences such as Optics Letters, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optics Communications, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, and Optics Express.

Best Publications

  • Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams

    A. E. Willner;H. Huang;Y. Yan;Y. Ren

  • High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Yan Yan;Guodong Xie;Martin P. J. Lavery;Hao Huang

  • Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications.

    Yongxiong Ren;Long Li;Zhe Wang;Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali

  • Metamaterials-based broadband generation of orbital angular momentum carrying vector beams

    Zhe Zhao;Jian Wang;Shuhui Li;Alan E Willner

  • Performance metrics and design considerations for a free-space optical orbital-angular-momentum-multiplexed communication link

    Guodong Xie;Long Li;Yongxiong Ren;Hao Huang

  • Recent advances in high-capacity free-space optical and radio-frequency communications using orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Alan E. Willner;Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength- and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region

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  • Line-of-Sight Millimeter-Wave Communications Using Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing Combined With Conventional Spatial Multiplexing

    Yongxiong Ren;Long Li;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • Experimental characterization of a 400 Gbit/s orbital angular momentum multiplexed free-space optical link over 120 m.

    Yongxiong Ren;Zhe Wang;Peicheng Liao;Long Li

  • Nonlinear conversion efficiency in Kerr frequency comb generation.

    Changjing Bao;Lin Zhang;Andrey Matsko;Yan Yan

  • Free-space optical communications using orbital-angular-momentum multiplexing combined with MIMO-based spatial multiplexing.

    Yongxiong Ren;Zhe Wang;Guodong Xie;Long Li

  • Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm

    Guodong Xie;Yongxiong Ren;Hao Huang;Martin P. J. Lavery

  • High-Capacity Free-Space Optical Communications Between a Ground Transmitter and a Ground Receiver via a UAV Using Multiplexing of Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams

    Long Li;Runzhou Zhang;Zhe Zhao;Guodong Xie

  • Experimental demonstration of a 200-Gbit/s free-space optical link by multiplexing Laguerre-Gaussian beams with different radial indices.

    Guodong Xie;Yongxiong Ren;Yan Yan;Hao Huang

  • Perspectives on advances in high-capacity, free-space communications using multiplexing of orbital-angular-momentum beams

    Alan E. Willner;Zhe Zhao;Cong Liu;Runzhou Zhang

  • Atmospheric turbulence mitigation in an OAM-based MIMO free-space optical link using spatial diversity combined with MIMO equalization.

    Yongxiong Ren;Zhe Wang;Guodong Xie;Long Li

  • Using a complex optical orbital-angular-momentum spectrum to measure object parameters.

    Guodong Xie;Haoqian Song;Zhe Zhao;Giovanni Milione

  • Turbulence-resilient pilot-assisted self-coherent free-space optical communications using automatic optoelectronic mixing of many modes

    Runzhou Zhang;Nanzhe Hu;Huibin Zhou;Kaiheng Zou

  • Underwater optical communications using orbital angular momentum-based spatial division multiplexing

    Alan E. Willner;Zhe Zhao;Yongxiong Ren;Long Li

  • Experimental demonstration of 20 Gbit/s data encoding and 2 ns channel hopping using orbital angular momentum modes.

    Asher J Willner;Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Zhe Zhao

  • Experimental demonstration of 16-Gbit/s millimeter-wave communications link using thin metamaterial plates to generate data-carrying orbital-angular-momentum beams

    Zhe Zhao;Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • Experimental demonstration of 16 Gbit/s millimeter-wave communications using MIMO processing of 2 OAM modes on each of two transmitter/receiver antenna apertures

    Yongxiong Ren;Long Li;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • Mode-Division-Multiplexing of Multiple Bessel-Gaussian Beams Carrying Orbital-Angular-Momentum for Obstruction-Tolerant Free-Space Optical and Millimetre-Wave Communication Links

    Nisar Ahmed;Zhe Zhao;Long Li;Hao Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Guodong Xie
Guodong Xie University of Southern California
Yongxiong Ren
Yongxiong Ren University of Southern California
Yan Yan
Yan Yan University of Southern California
Nisar Ahmed
Nisar Ahmed University of Southern California
Solyman Ashrafi
Solyman Ashrafi NxGen Partners
Andreas F. Molisch
Andreas F. Molisch University of Southern California
Shilpa Talwar
Shilpa Talwar Intel (United States)
Andrei Faraon
Andrei Faraon California Institute of Technology

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