Polarization interferometric prism: a versatile tool for generation of vector fields, measurement of topological charges and implementation of a spin-orbit Controlled-Not gate

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12584v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:22:36 GMT
• Title: Polarization interferometric prism: a versatile tool for generation of vector fields, measurement of topological charges and implementation of a spin-orbit Controlled-Not gate
• Authors: Zhi-Cheng Ren, Zi-Mo Cheng, Xi-Lin Wang, Jianping Ding, and Hui-Tian Wang
• Abstract summary: We design and manufacture a prism: polarization interferometric prism (PIP) as a single-element interferometer. As a versatile tool to generate, manipulate and detect the spin-orbital state of single photons, PIP can also work in single-photon regime for quantum information processing.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Optical vortex and vector field are two important types of structured optical fields. Due to their wide applications and unique features in many scientific realms, the generation, manipulation and measurement of such fields have attracted significant interest and become very important topics. However, most ways to generate vector fields have a trade-off among flexibility, efficiency, stability, and simplicity. Meanwhile, an easy and direct way to measure the topological charges, especially for high order optical vortex, is still a challenge. Here we design and manufacture a prism: polarization interferometric prism (PIP) as a single-element interferometer, which can conveniently convert an optical vortex to vector fields with high efficiency and be utilized to precisely measure the topological charge (both absolute value and sign) of an arbitrary optical vortex, even with a high order. Experimentally we generate a variety of vector fields with global fidelity ranging from 0.963 to 0.993 and measure the topological charge of an optical vortex by counting the number of petals uniformly distributed over a ring on the output intensity patterns. As a versatile tool to generate, manipulate and detect the spin-orbital state of single photons, PIP can also work in single-photon regime for quantum information processing. In experiment, the PIP is utilized as a spin-orbit Controlled-Not gate on the generated 28 two-qubit states, achieving the state fidelities ranging from 0.966 to 0.995 and demonstrating the feasibility of the PIP for single photons.

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