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光的轨道angular momentum本征态的有效分离

Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light

Mohammad Mirhosseini, Mehul Malik, Zhimin Shi, Robert W. Boyd

摘要:

光的轨道角动量(OAM)是量子力学基础研究中一个很有吸引力的自由度。此外,OAM的离散无界状态空间已被用于增强经典和量子通信。OAM的非环境测量是所有此类实验的关键部分。然而,用于分离携带大量不同OAM值的单光子的现有技术方法限于约77%的理论分离效率。在这里,我们展示了一种方法,它使用了一系列的酉光学变换,使光OAM的测量实验分离效率超过92%。此外,我们证明了分离模式的角度位置的基础上,这是相互公正的OAM基础。我们的方法所达到的高度的确定性使得它特别有吸引力的提高多层次量子密码系统的信息容量。

英文摘要:

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an attractive degree of freedom for funda- mentals studies in quantum mechanics. In addition, the discrete unbounded state-space of OAM has been used to enhance classical and quantum communications. Unambiguous mea- surement of OAM is a key part of all such experiments. However, state-of-the-art methods for separating single photons carrying a large number of different OAM values are limited to a theoretical separation efficiency of about 77 percent. Here we demonstrate a method which uses a series of unitary optical transformations to enable the measurement of lights OAM with an experimental separation efficiency of more than 92 percent. Further, we demonstrate the separation of modes in the angular position basis, which is mutually unbiased with respect to the OAM basis. The high degree of certainty achieved by our method makes it particu- larly attractive for enhancing the information capacity of multi-level quantum cryptography systems.

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