Characterizing Biphoton Spatial Wave Function Dynamics with Quantum Wavefront Sensing
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04973v2
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:49:48 GMT
- Title: Characterizing Biphoton Spatial Wave Function Dynamics with Quantum Wavefront Sensing
- Authors: Yi Zheng, Zhao-Di Liu, Rui-Heng Miao, Jin-Ming Cui, Mu Yang, Xiao-Ye Xu, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo,
- Abstract summary: We introduce quantum Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing to perform efficient and reference-free measurement of the biphoton spatial wave function.
Our work is a crucial step in quantum physical and adaptive optics and paves the way for characterizing quantum optical fields with high-order correlations or topological patterns.
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- Abstract: With an extremely high dimensionality, the spatial degree of freedom of entangled photons is a key tool for quantum foundation and applied quantum techniques. To fully utilize the feature, the essential task is to experimentally characterize the multiphoton spatial wave function including the entangled amplitude and phase information at different evolutionary stages. However, there is no effective method to measure it. Quantum state tomography is costly, and quantum holography requires additional references. Here we introduce quantum Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing to perform efficient and reference-free measurement of the biphoton spatial wave function. The joint probability distribution of photon pairs at the back focal plane of a microlens array is measured and used for amplitude extraction and phase reconstruction. In the experiment, we observe that the biphoton amplitude correlation becomes weak while phase correlation shows up during free-space propagation. Our work is a crucial step in quantum physical and adaptive optics and paves the way for characterizing quantum optical fields with high-order correlations or topological patterns.
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