Wigner distribution of twisted photons

Mohammad Mirhosseini; Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza; Changchen Chen; Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani; Robert W. Boyd

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.130402

Wigner distribution of twisted photons

Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Changchen Chen, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Robert W. Boyd

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Abstract

We present the first experimental characterization of the azimuthal Wigner distribution of a photon. Our protocol fully characterizes the transverse structure of a photon in conjugate bases of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and azimuthal angle. We provide a test of our protocol by characterizing pure superpositions and incoherent mixtures of OAM modes in a seven-dimensional space. The time required for performing measurements in our scheme scales only linearly with the dimension size of the state under investigation. This time scaling makes our technique suitable for quantum information applications involving a large number of OAM states.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	130402
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	116
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.130402
State	Published - Apr 1 2016

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