TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Airy photons
AU - Maruca, Stephanie
AU - Kumar, Santosh
AU - Sua, Yong Meng
AU - Chen, Jia Yang
AU - Shahverdi, Amin
AU - Huang, Yu Ping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2018/8/2
Y1 - 2018/8/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - quantum correlation
KW - quantum optics
KW - spatially structured light
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U2 - 10.1088/1361-6455/aacac5
DO - 10.1088/1361-6455/aacac5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054763575
SN - 0953-4075
VL - 51
JO - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
JF - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
IS - 17
M1 - 175501
ER -