Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface
Abstract Metasurfaces utilize engineered nanostructures to achieve control on all possible dimensions of light, encouraging versatile applications, including beam steering, multifunctional lensing, and multiplexed holograms. Towards the quantum optical regime for metasurfaces, although significant e...
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| author | Hong Liang Hammad Ahmed Wing Yim Tam Xianzhong Chen Jensen Li |
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| description | Abstract Metasurfaces utilize engineered nanostructures to achieve control on all possible dimensions of light, encouraging versatile applications, including beam steering, multifunctional lensing, and multiplexed holograms. Towards the quantum optical regime for metasurfaces, although significant efforts have been put into generating and analyzing specific quantum states, control schemes to further manipulate these quantum states or information are still limited. Here, based on a metasurface, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a continuous heralding scheme to remotely control a vortex beam with high robustness to noise using polarization-entangled photon pairs. Our metasurface entangles polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the polarization selection on heralding photon erases the which-OAM information on signal photon. It induces an interference of two different OAM states remotely, manifesting a continuous orbital rotation. Our results show that metasurfaces have potential applications in quantum communication and information processing in entangling information with increasing complexity in the content. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f8a2f2918ab41fbb10ba04435f3efcd2023-06-18T11:16:28ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Physics2399-36502023-06-01611710.1038/s42005-023-01262-5Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurfaceHong Liang0Hammad Ahmed1Wing Yim Tam2Xianzhong Chen3Jensen Li4Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water BaySchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt UniversityDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water BaySchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt UniversityDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water BayAbstract Metasurfaces utilize engineered nanostructures to achieve control on all possible dimensions of light, encouraging versatile applications, including beam steering, multifunctional lensing, and multiplexed holograms. Towards the quantum optical regime for metasurfaces, although significant efforts have been put into generating and analyzing specific quantum states, control schemes to further manipulate these quantum states or information are still limited. Here, based on a metasurface, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a continuous heralding scheme to remotely control a vortex beam with high robustness to noise using polarization-entangled photon pairs. Our metasurface entangles polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the polarization selection on heralding photon erases the which-OAM information on signal photon. It induces an interference of two different OAM states remotely, manifesting a continuous orbital rotation. Our results show that metasurfaces have potential applications in quantum communication and information processing in entangling information with increasing complexity in the content.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01262-5 |
| spellingShingle | Hong Liang Hammad Ahmed Wing Yim Tam Xianzhong Chen Jensen Li Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface Communications Physics |
| title | Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| title_full | Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| title_fullStr | Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| title_full_unstemmed | Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| title_short | Continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| title_sort | continuous heralding control of vortex beams using quantum metasurface |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01262-5 |
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