OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing

Feiyang Shen; Zhengyang Mao; Weiwen Fan; Jiangwei Wu; Zhifan Fang; Haigang Liu; Xianfeng Chen; Yong Zhang; Yuping Chen

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-02107-2

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OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing

Original Articles

- OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 15, Issue 1, Pages: 310-320(2026)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  2.National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  3.Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
- Author bio：
  
  Haigang Liu (liuhaigang@sjtu.edu.cn)
  Xianfeng Chen (xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn)
  Yong Zhang (zhangyong@nju.edu.cn)
  Yuping Chen (ypchen@sjtu.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-02107-2
  CLC：
- Received：05 July 2025，
  
  Revised：2025-10-11，
  
  Accepted：24 October 2025，
  
  Published Online：02 January 2026，
  
  Published：31 January 2026
- Accepted：
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Shen, F. Y. et al. OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 310-320 (2026).
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Shen, F. Y. et al. OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 310-320 (2026). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-02107-2.

摘要

Abstract

Holography has emerged as a vital platform for three-dimensional displays

optical encryption

and photonic information processing

leveraging diverse physical dimensions of light such as wavelength

polarization

and orbital angular momentum (OAM) to expand multiplexing capacity. However

the exhaustive utilization of these intrinsic degrees of freedom has saturated the parameter space for holographic encoding

leaving no room for further scalability. Here

we demonstrate an OAM multiplication operator enabled holographic multiplexing. We engineer the operator-specific hologram that selectively responds to the predefined operator pathway. Subsequent validation of orthogonality between distinct operator pathways ensures the multiplexing ability

thereby enabling the parallel encoding of multiple holographic images. In the experiment

we have successfully demonstrated a ninefold capacity enhancement over conventional OAM holography and a 2-bit operator-multiplexed hologram for high-security optical encryption. This work introduces operators as a synthetic dimension beyond light’s intrinsic properties into holography

unlocking a scalable and secure paradigm for ultrahigh-dimensional information technologies.

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