Quantum digital spiral imaging

Lixiang Chen; Jijin Lei; Jacquiline Romero

doi:10.1038/lsa.2014.34

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Quantum digital spiral imaging

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- Quantum digital spiral imaging
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 3, Issue 2, (2014)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics and Laboratory of Nanoscale Condensed Matter Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
  2.School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
- Author bio：
  
  Professor LX Chen, Department of Physics and Laboratory of Nanoscale Condensed Matter Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China Email: chenlx@xmu.edu.cn
  Dr J Romero, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Email: jacq.romero@gmail.com
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2014.34
  CLC：
- Published：2014-06，
  
  Published Online：28 March 2014，
  
  Received：11 July 2013，
  
  Revised：10 November 2013，
  
  Accepted：12 November 2013
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Chen, L. X., Lei, J. J. & Romero, J. Quantum digital spiral imaging. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e153 (2014).
DOI：

Chen, L. X., Lei, J. J. & Romero, J. Quantum digital spiral imaging. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e153 (2014). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2014.34.

摘要

Abstract

We demonstrate that the combination of digital spiral imaging with high-dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement can be used for efficiently probing and identifying pure phase objects

where the probing light does not necessarily touch the object

via

the experimental

non-local decomposition of non-integer pure phase vortices in OAM-entangled photon pairs. The entangled photons are generated by parametric downconversion and then measured with spatial light modulators and single-mode fibers. The fractional phase vortices are defined in the idler photons

while their corresponding spiral spectra are obtained non-locally by scanning the measured OAM states in the signal photons. We conceptually illustrate our results with the biphoton Klyshko picture and the effective dimensionality to demonstrate the high-dimensional nature of the associated quantum OAM channels. Our result is a proof of concept that quantum imaging techniques exploiting high-dimensional entanglement can potentially be used for remote sensing.

关键词

Keywords

dimensionalityKlyshko pictureoptical vorticesorbital angular momentumquantum imaging

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