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most citedRobust structured light in atmospheric turbulence

145 citations · 155 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2026

Real-time estimation of the transmission matrix of an atmospheric channel

Cade Peters, Raphael Bellossi, Douglas McDonald +3

Optical wavelengths have received significant attention in free-space channels and are vital for applications in communications, imaging and sensing. Their widespread implementatio…

physics.optics2026

Towards digital phantoms: emulating scattering with a spatial light modulator

Kelsey Everts, Cade Peters, Andrew Forbes

The distortion of light's degrees of freedom when passing through complex random media is of great interest across a diversity of fields, e.g., scattering in biological studies. Em…

quant-ph2026

Topological robustness of orbital angular momentum entanglement in stochastic channels

Tatjana Kleine, Pedro Ornelas, Cade Peters +5

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement gives access to multiple qubit and high dimensional Hilbert spaces, but is unfortunately susceptible to disturbance, decaying in real-wo…

physics.optics2026

Particle-like topologies of light in turbulent complex media

Danilo Gomes Pires, Vasilios Cocotos, Cade Peters +2

The basic building blocks of many forms of optical topologies are particle-like singularities in phase and polarisation, giving rise to lines of darkness that weave complex threads…

physics.optics2026

Topological robustness of optical skyrmions through a real-world free-space link

Cade Peters, Vagharshak Hakobyan, Alice Drozdov +3

Structured light offers a promising solution for the increasing data demands of modern optical networks, opening up new degrees of freedom that can be leveraged for greater channel…

physics.optics2025

Deep diffractive optical neural networks for detecting Skyrmionic topologies of light

Hadrian Bezuidenhout, Cade Peters, Ram Kumar +2

Optical Skyrmions are topological forms of structured light with the potential of an infinite encoding alphabet that is immune to disturbance. This attractive prospect is hindered…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Topological robustness of classical and quantum optical skyrmions in atmospheric turbulence

Zhenyu Guo, Cade Peters, Nilo Mata-Cervera +5

The degradation of classical and quantum structured light induced by complex media constitutes a critical barrier to its practical implementation in a range of applications, from c…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Seeing through randomness with topological light

Cade Peters, Kelsey Everts, Tatjana Kleine +2

Transmitting structured light robustly through complex random media is crucial in many applications, from sensing to communication. Unfortunately, the spatial structure of light is…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Disorder-enabled Synthetic Metasurfaces

Chi Li, Changxu Liu, Cade Peters +4

Optical metasurfaces have catalyzed transformative advances across imaging, optoelectronics, quantum information processing, sensing, energy conversion, and optical computing. Yet,…

physics.optics2025★ 5 cited

Tailoring light to create invariant modal spectra through complex channels

Cade Peters, Isaac Nape, Andrew Forbes

Light's spatial degree of freedom is emerging as a potential resource for a myriad of applications, in both classical and quantum domains, including secure communication, sensing a…

physics.optics2022★ 145 cited

Robust structured light in atmospheric turbulence

Asher Klug, Cade Peters, Andrew Forbes

Structured light is routinely used in free space optical communication channels, both classical and quantum, where information is encoded in the spatial structure of the mode for i…

physics.optics2022

Eigenmodes of aberrated systems: the tilted lens

Wagner Tavares Buono, Jacuqueline Tau, Isaac Nape +1

When light is passed through aberrated optical systems, the resulting degradation in amplitude and phase has deleterious effects, for example, on resolution in imaging, spot sizes…