Quantifying Information via Structural Complexity in Optical Beams Using Shannon Entropy
Jiachi Ye, Maria Solyanik‐Gorgone, Andrei V. Afanasev, Volker J. Sorger · OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES) · 2021
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.