Ptychographic estimation of qudit states encoded in the angular position and orbital angular momentum of single photons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14073v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:47:32 GMT
• Title: Ptychographic estimation of qudit states encoded in the angular position and orbital angular momentum of single photons
• Authors: A. M. da Costa, L. Neves,
• Abstract summary: Ptychography is a computational imaging technique mainly used in optical and electron microscopy.<n>We describe how to implement ptychography for $D$-dimensional qudit states encoded in the angular position and orbital angular momentum of single photons.<n>We show that the intermediate projections will be carried out by simple binary spatial filters in the angular paths, while the measurement in the Fourier basis will be performed by postselecting $D$ OAM modes.
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• Abstract: Ptychography is a computational imaging technique mainly used in optical and electron microscopy. Its quantum analogue was recently introduced as a simple method for estimating unknown pure quantum states through projections onto partially overlapping subspaces, each one followed by a projective measurement in the Fourier basis. In the end, an iterative algorithm estimates the state from the collected data. Here, we theoretically describe how to implement this method for $D$-dimensional qudit states encoded in the angular position and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of single photons. For this purpose, we define the qudit by discretizing the spatial profile of a photon in cylindrical coordinates, using an array of $D$ angular slits symmetrically distributed in the transverse plane. To apply ptychography to this encoding, we show that the intermediate projections will be carried out by simple binary spatial filters in the angular paths, while the measurement in the Fourier basis will be performed by postselecting $D$ OAM modes compatible with the quantum Fourier transform of the path basis. We illustrate the effectiveness of this scheme through simulations and discuss its experimental feasibility.

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