Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07693v1
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:06:24 GMT
- Title: Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets
- Authors: Jianmin Wang, Ying Zuo, Xingchang Wang, Demetrios N. Christodoulides,
Georgios A. Siviloglou, and J. F. Chen
- Abstract summary: Uninhibited control of the complex quantum wavefunction of a single photon has so far remained elusive.
We synthesize in a robust and versatile manner arbitrary quantum nonspreadingtemporal light bullets.
- Score: 20.416671946991904
- License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
- Abstract: Uninhibited control of the complex spatiotemporal quantum wavefunction of a
single photon has so far remained elusive even though it can dramatically
increase the encoding flexibility and thus the information capacity of a
photonic quantum link. By fusing temporal waveform generation in a cold atomic
ensemble and spatial single-photon shaping, we hereby demonstrate for the first
time complete spatiotemporal control of a propagation invariant (2+1)D Airy
single-photon optical bullet. These correlated photons are not only
self-accelerating and impervious to spreading as their classical counterparts,
but can be concealed and revealed in the presence of strong classical light
noise. Our methodology allows one to synthesize in a robust and versatile
manner arbitrary quantum nonspreading spatiotemporal light bullets and in this
respect could have ramifications in a broad range of applications such as
quantum imaging, long-distance quantum communications, and multidimensional
information encoding.
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