Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 18, Issue 10, 102601(2020)

Double-slit interference of single twisted photons Editors' Pick

Wen-Rong Qi1, Rui Liu1, Ling-Jun Kong2, Zhou-Xiang Wang1, Shuang-Yin Huang1, Chenghou Tu1, Yongnan Li1、*, and Hui-Tian Wang2、**
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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    The three-dimensional and two-dimensional APTs of the twisted light (ℓ=1) in the double-slit interference. (a) Three-dimensional structures and their projections at the z=10zR plane (500 initial points for each slit). (b) Two-dimensional structures in the xz plane for 60 trajectories.
    Schematic diagram of experimental setup. HWP, half-wave plate; PBS, polarization beam splitter; L, lens; PPKTP, periodically poled KTP; IF, interference filter; QWP, quarter wave plate; FPC, fiber polarization controller; PAD, photon avalanche detector.
    Examples of 100 triggered coincidence images of ℓ=+1 OAM photons by the ICCD camera and the summing pattern of 100 frame images. Every acquired frame has an exposure time of 100 ms and is photon sparse.
    Triggered images by the ICCD for different exposure times, for the ℓ=+1 OAM twisted photons. (a) The ℓ=+1 OAM twisted photons themselves and (b) in the double-slit interference. If the photons are detected one by one, the photons appear to be distributed quite randomly. As the total number of accumulated photons increases, the interference fringes appear.
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    Wen-Rong Qi, Rui Liu, Ling-Jun Kong, Zhou-Xiang Wang, Shuang-Yin Huang, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang, "Double-slit interference of single twisted photons," Chin. Opt. Lett. 18, 102601 (2020)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Physical Optics

    Received: May. 10, 2020

    Accepted: Jun. 1, 2020

    Posted: Jun. 1, 2020

    Published Online: Aug. 3, 2020

    The Author Email: Yongnan Li (liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn), Hui-Tian Wang (htwang@nju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202018.102601

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