http://www.sciencemag.org/content/34.../1545.abstract
Be sure to click the Editor's summary tab, to get it explained in regular English, but the key points are
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Over 1.1 kilometers of a specially designed optical fiber that minimizes mode coupling, we achieved 400-gigabits-per-second data transmission using four angular momentum modes at a single wavelength, and 1.6 terabits per second using two OAM modes over 10 wavelengths.
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