  Teleportation is the most widely discussed application of the basic
principles of quantum mechanics. Fundamentally, this process describes the
transmission of information, which involves transport of neither matter nor
energy. The implicit assumption, however, is that this scheme is of inherently
nonlocal nature, and therefore exclusive to quantum systems. Here, we show that
the concept can be readily generalized beyond the quantum realm. We present an
optical implementation of the teleportation protocol solely based on classical
entanglement between spatial and modal degrees of freedom, entirely independent
of nonlocality. Our findings could enable novel methods for distributing
information between different transmission channels and may provide the means
to leverage the advantages of both quantum and classical systems to create a
robust hybrid communication infrastructure.
