Any DOF All at Once: Single Photon State Tomography in a Single Measurement Setup

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22869v2
• Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:01:16 GMT
• Title: Any DOF All at Once: Single Photon State Tomography in a Single Measurement Setup
• Authors: Roey Shafran, Ron Ziv, Mordechai Segev,
• Abstract summary: Photonic quantum technologies utilize various degrees of freedom (DOFs) of light to encode quantum information.<n>We propose a framework for reconstructing the density matrix of a single-photon hyperentangled across multiple DOFs.<n>We numerically demonstrate this method for single-photon OAM-spin and OAM-frequency entangled states using an ideal coupler and a multimode fiber.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Photonic quantum technologies utilize various degrees of freedom (DOFs) of light, such as polarization, frequency, and spatial modes, to encode quantum information. In the effort of further improving channel capacity and increasing the complexity of available quantum operations, high-dimensional and hyperentangled states are now gaining interest. Efficiently measuring these high dimensional states is challenging due to the large number of measurements required for reconstructing the full density matrix via quantum state tomography (QST), and the fact that each measurement requires some modification in the experimental setup. Here, we propose a framework for reconstructing the density matrix of a single-photon hyperentangled across multiple DOFs using a single intensity-measurement obtainable from traditional cameras, and discuss extensions for multiphoton hyperentangled states. Our method hinges on the spatial DOF of the photon and uses it to encode information from other DOFs. We numerically demonstrate this method for single-photon OAM-spin and OAM-frequency entangled states using an ideal coupler and a multimode fiber, to perform the spatial information mixing and encoding. This technique simplifies the experimental setup and reduces acquisition time compared to traditional QST based methods. Moreover, it allows recovery of DOFs that conventional cameras cannot detect, such as polarization, thus eliminating the need for projection measurements.

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