Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets
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| author | Wang, Jianmin Zuo, Ying Wang, Xingchang Christodoulides, Demetrios N. Siviloglou, Georgios A. Chen, J. F. |
| author_facet | Wang, Jianmin Zuo, Ying Wang, Xingchang Christodoulides, Demetrios N. Siviloglou, Georgios A. Chen, J. F. |
| contents | Uninhibited control of the complex spatiotemporal quantum wavefunction of a single photon has so far remained elusive even though it can dramatically increase the encoding flexibility and thus the information capacity of a photonic quantum link. By fusing temporal waveform generation in a cold atomic ensemble and spatial single-photon shaping, we hereby demonstrate for the first time complete spatiotemporal control of a propagation invariant (2+1)D Airy single-photon optical bullet. These correlated photons are not only self-accelerating and impervious to spreading as their classical counterparts, but can be concealed and revealed in the presence of strong classical light noise. Our methodology allows one to synthesize in a robust and versatile manner arbitrary quantum nonspreading spatiotemporal light bullets and in this respect could have ramifications in a broad range of applications such as quantum imaging, long-distance quantum communications, and multidimensional information encoding. |
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| spellingShingle | Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets Wang, Jianmin Zuo, Ying Wang, Xingchang Christodoulides, Demetrios N. Siviloglou, Georgios A. Chen, J. F. Optics Atomic Physics Quantum Physics Uninhibited control of the complex spatiotemporal quantum wavefunction of a single photon has so far remained elusive even though it can dramatically increase the encoding flexibility and thus the information capacity of a photonic quantum link. By fusing temporal waveform generation in a cold atomic ensemble and spatial single-photon shaping, we hereby demonstrate for the first time complete spatiotemporal control of a propagation invariant (2+1)D Airy single-photon optical bullet. These correlated photons are not only self-accelerating and impervious to spreading as their classical counterparts, but can be concealed and revealed in the presence of strong classical light noise. Our methodology allows one to synthesize in a robust and versatile manner arbitrary quantum nonspreading spatiotemporal light bullets and in this respect could have ramifications in a broad range of applications such as quantum imaging, long-distance quantum communications, and multidimensional information encoding. |
| title | Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets |
| topic | Optics Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07693 |