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13 March 2024 High dimensional structured light quantum sources
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Proceedings Volume PC12901, Complex Light and Optical Forces XVIII; PC129010D (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3009109
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2024, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Entangling photons in the orbital angular momentum (OAM) degree of freedom, demonstrated over 20 years ago, yields a promising pathway for increasing the dimensionality of quantum sources, of utility in high-dimensional communications as well as in efficient quantum computing algorithms in higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces. An efficient integrated-optic means of achieving this has, however, eluded the community thus far.

One potential solution to this problem may be found by exploiting the newly discovered phenomenon of topological confinement, which has yielded a multimode platform with as many as 60 stable OAM modes in optical fibers. This provides for a plethora of spontaneous four-wave mixing phase matching possibilities enabling control not only over the wavelengths at which the photon pairs can be generated, but also over the shapes of their joint spectral densities, ranging from correlated, uncorrelated, to anti-correlated.

This talk will describe recent experiments aimed at the development of compact, single-aperture devices whose biphoton emissions can be engineered to exploit the spatial dimension of light.
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Siddharth Ramachandran "High dimensional structured light quantum sources", Proc. SPIE PC12901, Complex Light and Optical Forces XVIII, PC129010D (13 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3009109
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KEYWORDS
Quantum sources

Structured light

Photons

Quantum correlations

Quantum engineering

Quantum entanglement

Quantum optics experiments

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