Quantum Airy photons

Stephanie Maruca, Santosh Kumar, Yong Meng Sua, Jia Yang Chen, Amin Shahverdi, Yu Ping Huang

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Abstract

With exotic propagation properties, optical Airy beams have been well studied for innovative applications in communications, biomedical imaging, micromachining, and so on. Here we extend those studies to the quantum domain, creating quantum correlated photons in finite-energy Airy transverse modes via spontaneous parametric down conversion and subsequential spatial light modulation. Through two-photon coincidence measurements, we verify their Airy spatial wavefunctions, propagation along a parabolic trajectory, and that the spatial modulation does not introduce any observable degradation of quantum correlation between the photons. These results suggest the feasibility of using spatially structured photons for practically advantageous quantum applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number175501
JournalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume51
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Aug 2018

Keywords

  • quantum correlation
  • quantum optics
  • spatially structured light

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