Structured Light: Fundamentals, Communications, and Sensing

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will overview my past and current research at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. This will include higher-order Poincare spheres and Stokes parameters for optical angular momentum and vectorial polarization, including an SU(N) representation of spatial modes, and an analogy of quantum superdense coding with light’s non-separability/classical entanglement. I will also discuss the use of space division multiplexing to increasing data capacity for free space and optical fiber communications. Finally, I will the use of distributed optical fiber sensing to secure critical infrastructure, including the application of deep learning to coherent optical time domain reflectometry.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Giovanni Milione is a Senior Researcher & Business Incubation Lead in the Optical Networking & Sensing Department at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. in Princeton, NJ. He received his B.S. in Physics from Stony Brook University and M.S., M. Phil., & Ph.D., all in Physics, from CUNY The City College of New York, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He is currently topic chairs for IEEE’s Photonics and Optica’s Frontiers in Optics Conferences and served on the Editorial Advisory Committee for Optica’s Optics & Photonics News. His 100+ publications/patents comprise fundamentals of structured light, including optical angular momentum and vectorial polarization, space division multiplexing-based communication over free space & optical fibers, and distributed optical fiber sensing.