Fast imaging of multimode transverse–spectral correlations for twin photons

Abstract

Hyperentangled photonic states—exhibiting nonclassical correlations in several degrees of freedom—offer improved performance of quantum optical communication and computation schemes. Experimentally, a hyperentanglement of transverse-wave-vector and spectral modes can be obtained in a straightforward way with multimode parametric single-photon sources. Nevertheless, experimental characterization of such states remains challenging. Not only single-photon detection with high spatial resolution—a single-photon camera—is required, but also a suitable mode converter to observe the spectral–temporal degree of freedom. We experimentally demonstrate a measurement of full four-dimensional transverse-wave-vector–spectral correlations between pairs of photons produced in noncollinear spontaneous parametric downconversion. Utilization of a custom ultrafast single-photon camera provides high resolution and a short measurement time.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 17, 2021
Source ID
10.1364/ol.417658

Entities

People

  • Michał Lipka
  • Michał Parniak

Organizations

  • European Regional Development Fund
  • Foundation for Polish Science
  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education
  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Warsaw

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing