Talbot self-imaging and two-photon interference in ring-core fibers
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08035v1
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:55:46 GMT
- Title: Talbot self-imaging and two-photon interference in ring-core fibers
- Authors: Matias Eriksson, Benjamin A. Stickler, Lea Kopf, Markus Hiekkam\"aki,
Regina Gumenyuk, Yuri Chamorovskiy, Sven Ramelow, Robert Fickler
- Abstract summary: We report the experimental observation of the cylindrical Talbot carpet in weakly-guiding ring-core fibers for classical light fields.
We show that the ring-core fiber acts as a high-order optical beamsplitter for single photons, whose output can be controlled by the relative phase between the input light fields.
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- Abstract: Wave propagation on the surface of cylinders exhibits interferometric self
imaging, much like the Talbot effect in the near-field diffraction at periodic
gratings. We report the experimental observation of the cylindrical Talbot
carpet in weakly-guiding ring-core fibers for classical light fields. We
further show that the ring-core fiber acts as a high-order optical beamsplitter
for single photons, whose output can be controlled by the relative phase
between the input light fields. By also demonstrating high-quality two-photon
interference between indistinguishable photons sent into the ring-core fiber,
our findings open the door to applications in optical telecommunications as a
compact beam multiplexer as well as in quantum information processing tasks as
a scalable realization of a linear optical network.
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