Title
Imaging single photons in non-separable states of polarization and spatial-mode
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
Non-separable superpositions of polarization and spatial mode of a single photon produce a state that has a polarization that depends on the transverse position, and contains all states of polarization represented on the Poincaré sphere. We have done measurements of the space-dependent state of polarization of single photons prepared in distinct 2×2 (qubit-qubit) and 2×3 (qubit-qutrit) non-separable superpositions of Laguerre-Gauss spatial and polarization states. Detection was done by polarimetry of the light projected at distinct locations in the transverse plane. The polarization patterns had a C-point polarization singularity (lemon, star or monstar) at the center of the transverse wavefunction.
Volume
9225
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84922747272
Source
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
978-162841252-9
Conference
Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XII
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation - FA8750- 11-2-0034
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