Orbital angular momentum photonic quantum interface

Zhi-Yuan Zhou; Yan Li; Dong-Sheng Ding; Wei Zhang; Shuai Shi; Bao-Sen Shi; Guang-Can Guo

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.19

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Orbital angular momentum photonic quantum interface

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- Orbital angular momentum photonic quantum interface
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 1, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  2.Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Author bio：
  
  BS Shi, Email: drshi@ustc.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.19
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- Published：2016-03，
  
  Published Online：06 September 2015，
  
  Received：21 April 2015，
  
  Revised：02 September 2015，
  
  Accepted：04 September 2015
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Zhou, Z. Y. et al. Orbital angular momentum photonic quantum interface. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16019 (2016).
DOI：

Zhou, Z. Y. et al. Orbital angular momentum photonic quantum interface. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16019 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.19.

摘要

Abstract

Light-carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has great potential in enhancing the information channel capacity in both classical and quantum optical communications. Long distance optical communication requires the wavelengths of light are situated in the low-loss communication windows

but most quantum memories currently being developed for use in a quantum repeater work at different wavelengths

so a quantum interface to bridge the wavelength gap is necessary. So far

such an interface for OAM-carried light has not been realized yet. Here

we report the first experimental realization of a quantum interface for a heralded single photon carrying OAM using a nonlinear crystal in an optical cavity. The spatial structures of input and output photons exhibit strong similarity. More importantly

single-photon coherence is preserved during up-conversion as demonstrated.

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Keywords

frequency conversionspontaneous parametric down conversionsum frequency generationorbital angular momentum

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