Attenuation of Bessel vortex beam transmission in the rain environment

K Dong, W Jiang, M Cheng, C Shi, Y Cao… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vortex beam propagates in the atmospheric environment, it interacts with the floating cloud,
fog, rain and other micro particles, the absorption and scattering effects will lead to the …

Image encryption using binary polarization states of light beam

A Shikder, NK Nishchal - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Optical image/data encryption techniques are mostly based on the manipulation of spatial
distributions of light's amplitude, phase, and polarization. Information encoding with phase …

Measurement of the fractional topological charge of an optical vortex beam through interference fringe dislocation

A Shikder, NK Nishchal - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
An optical vortex beam carrying fractional topological charge (TC) has become an
immerging field of interest due to its unique intensity distribution and fractional phase front in …

Optical asymmetric image encryption using vectorial light field encoding

SK Rao, NK Nishchal, A AlFalou - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose an asymmetric image encryption scheme that employs chaotic phase masks
and vectorial light field. Vector light fields have non-uniform state of polarization across the …

Generation of optical vortex lattices by in-line phase modulation with partially coherent light

A Shikder, NK Nishchal - JOSA A, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Of late, generation of different kinds of optical vortex lattices has been gaining much
attention due to various applications. Several methods have been reported for the …

Binary image encryption with a QR code-encoded optical beam having an array of vortices

A Shikder, SK Rao, P Kumar, NK Nishchal - JOSA A, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical information processing has become increasingly important due to its
ability to handle large amounts of data efficiently. Amplitude, phase, spatial frequency …

Optical asymmetric cryptosystem for multiple image encryption through vector field encoding

SK Rao, NK Nishchal - Applied Physics B, 2023 - Springer
We propose an optical asymmetric technique for multiple-images that uses the feature of
arbitrary vector light. It involves structured phase masks that have been generated using …

Variational approach to learning photonic unitary operators

H Bezuidenhout, M Koni, J Leach… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Structured light, light tailored in its internal degrees of freedom, has become topical in
numerous quantum and classical information processing protocols. In this work, we harness …

Topological charge identification of vortex beams through optical correlation

R Kumar, A Shikder, NK Nishchal… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently optical beams containing orbital angular momentum have gained considerable
attention due to their wide range of uses. In all the applications, accurate determination of …

Influence of thermal blooming on propagation dynamics of vortex beams in the atmosphere

L Deng, X Li, X Ji, AT Friberg - Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
The phase singularities and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of vortex beams propagating
in the thermally nonlinear moving atmosphere are first studied in detail. New discoveries are …