3D imaging of the biphoton spatiotemporal wave packet
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| author | Xue, Yang He, Ze-Shan Tian, Hao-Shu Wang, Qin-Qin Yin, Bin-Tong Zhong, Jun Xu, Xiao-Ye Li, Chuan-Feng Guo, Guang-Can |
| author_facet | Xue, Yang He, Ze-Shan Tian, Hao-Shu Wang, Qin-Qin Yin, Bin-Tong Zhong, Jun Xu, Xiao-Ye Li, Chuan-Feng Guo, Guang-Can |
| contents | Photons are among the most important carriers of quantum information owing to their rich degrees of freedom (DoFs), including various spatiotemporal structures. The ability to characterize these DoFs, as well as the hidden correlations among them, directly determines whether they can be exploited for quantum tasks. While various methods have been developed for measuring the spatiotemporal structure of classical light fields, owing to the technical challenges posed by weak photon flux, there have so far been no reports of observing such structures in their quantum counterparts, except for a few studies limited to correlations within individual DoFs. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a self-referenced, high-efficiency, and all-optical method, termed 3D imaging of photonic wave packets, for comprehensive characterization of the spatiotemporal structure of a quantum light field, i.e., the biphoton spatiotemporal wave packet. Benefiting from this developed method, we successfully observe the spatial-spatial, spectral-spectral, and spatiotemporal correlations of biphotons generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion, revealing rich local and nonlocal spatiotemporal structure in quantum light fields. This method will further advance the understanding of the dynamics in nonlinear quantum optics and expand the potential of photons for applications in quantum communication and quantum computing. |
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| spellingShingle | 3D imaging of the biphoton spatiotemporal wave packet Xue, Yang He, Ze-Shan Tian, Hao-Shu Wang, Qin-Qin Yin, Bin-Tong Zhong, Jun Xu, Xiao-Ye Li, Chuan-Feng Guo, Guang-Can Quantum Physics Optics Photons are among the most important carriers of quantum information owing to their rich degrees of freedom (DoFs), including various spatiotemporal structures. The ability to characterize these DoFs, as well as the hidden correlations among them, directly determines whether they can be exploited for quantum tasks. While various methods have been developed for measuring the spatiotemporal structure of classical light fields, owing to the technical challenges posed by weak photon flux, there have so far been no reports of observing such structures in their quantum counterparts, except for a few studies limited to correlations within individual DoFs. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a self-referenced, high-efficiency, and all-optical method, termed 3D imaging of photonic wave packets, for comprehensive characterization of the spatiotemporal structure of a quantum light field, i.e., the biphoton spatiotemporal wave packet. Benefiting from this developed method, we successfully observe the spatial-spatial, spectral-spectral, and spatiotemporal correlations of biphotons generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion, revealing rich local and nonlocal spatiotemporal structure in quantum light fields. This method will further advance the understanding of the dynamics in nonlinear quantum optics and expand the potential of photons for applications in quantum communication and quantum computing. |
| title | 3D imaging of the biphoton spatiotemporal wave packet |
| topic | Quantum Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21250 |