Metasurfaces for Quantum Photonics
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14722v1
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:14:43 GMT
- Title: Metasurfaces for Quantum Photonics
- Authors: Alexander S. Solntsev, Girish S. Agarwal, and Yuri S. Kivshar
- Abstract summary: Development of metasurfaces allowed to replace bulky optical assemblies with thin nanostructured films.
Recent progress in the field of quantum-photonics applications of metasurfaces.
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- Abstract: Rapid progress in the development of metasurfaces allowed to replace bulky
optical assemblies with thin nanostructured films, often called metasurfaces,
opening a broad range of novel and superior applications to the generation,
manipulation, and detection of light in classical optics. Recently, these
developments started making a headway in quantum photonics, where novel
opportunities arose for the control of nonclassical nature of light, including
photon statistics, quantum state superposition, quantum entanglement, and
single-photon detection. In this Perspective, we review recent progress in the
field of quantum-photonics applications of metasurfaces, focusing on innovative
and promising approaches to create, manipulate, and detect nonclassical light.
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