Quantifying Information via Structural Complexity in Optical Beams Using Shannon Entropy

Jiachi Ye; Maria Solyanik-Gorgone; Andrei Afanasev; Volker J. Sorger

doi:10.1364/AIS.2021.JTu5A.9

OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021),
paper JTu5A.9
•https://doi.org/10.1364/AIS.2021.JTu5A.9

Quantifying Information via Structural Complexity in Optical Beams Using Shannon Entropy

Jiachi Ye, Maria Solyanik-Gorgone, Andrei Afanasev, and Volker J. Sorger

Applied Industrial Spectroscopy 2021

Washington, DC United States
19–23 July 2021
ISBN: 978-1-943580-90-3

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J. Ye, M. Solyanik-Gorgone, A. Afanasev, and V. J. Sorger, "Quantifying Information via Structural Complexity in Optical Beams Using Shannon Entropy," in OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES), S. Buckley, F. Vanier, S. Shi, K. Walker, I. Coddington, S. Paine, K. Lok Chan, W. Moses, S. Qian, P. Pellegrino, F. Vollmer, G. , J. Jágerská, R. Menzies, L. Emmenegger, and J. Westberg, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper JTu5A.9.

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Abstract

We propose a new definition of classical Shannon information that is detached from a particular alphabet and scales with the complexity of the optical field. We experimentally validate these results by reconstructing the wavefront topology.

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