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Room-temperature on-chip orbital angular momentum single-photon sources

Cuo Wu, Shailesh Kumar, Yinhui Kan, Danylo Komisar, Zhiming Wang, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Fei Ding

2022Science Advances112 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

(0) ≈ 0.22, carrying entangled spin and OAM states and forming two spatially separated entangled radiation channels with different polarization properties. The OAM-encoded single photons are generated by efficiently outcoupling diverging surface plasmon polaritons excited with a deterministically positioned quantum emitter via Archimedean spiral gratings. Our OAM single-photon source platform bridges the gap between conventional OAM manipulation and nonclassical light sources, enabling high-dimensional and large-scale photonic quantum systems for quantum information processing.

Topics & Concepts

Angular momentumPhotonCollimated lightPhysicsOrbital angular momentum of lightOrbital angular momentum multiplexingTotal angular momentum quantum numberAngular momentum of lightOpticsAngular momentum couplingAtomic physicsQuantum mechanicsLaserOrbital Angular Momentum in OpticsPhotonic and Optical DevicesPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
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