Abstract
We demonstrate that a |q|=1/2 plate plus polarization optics can tunably excite all linear combinations of |l|=1 fiber OAM modes with up to ~30 dB purity, enabling switch fabrics in fiber-OAM networks and disentangling of degenerate mode mixing effects in long fibers.
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