Stable Mode Sorting by Two-Dimensional Parity of Photonic Transverse Spatial States

Details Stable Mode Sorting by Two-Dimensional Parity of Photonic Transverse Spatial States Stable Mode Sorting by Two-Dimensional Parity of Photonic Transverse Spatial States

2008-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2447v1

Opt. Express 17, 2435-2452 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, 12 figures, 2 appendices

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.17.002435

We describe a mode sorter for two-dimensional parity of transverse spatial states of light based on an out-of-plane Sagnac interferometer. Both Hermite-Gauss (HG) and Laguerre-Gauss (LG) modes can be guided into one of two output ports according to the two-dimensional parity of the mode in question. Our interferometer sorts HG_nm input modes depending upon whether they have even or odd order n+m; it equivalently sorts LG modes depending upon whether they have an even or odd value of their orbital angular momentum. It functions efficiently at the single-photon level, and therefore can be used to sort single-photon states. Due to the inherent phase stability of this type of interferometer as compared to those of the Mach-Zehnder type, it provides a promising tool for the manipulation and filtering of higher order transverse spatial modes for the purposes of quantum information processing. For example, several similar Sagnacs cascaded together may allow, for the first time, a stable measurement of the orbital angular momentum of a true single-photon state. Furthermore, as an alternative to well-known holographic techniques, one can use the Sagnac in conjunction with a multi-mode fiber as a spatial mode filter, which can be used to produce spatial-mode entangled Bell states and heralded single photons in arbitrary first-order (n+m=1) spatial states, covering the entire Poincare sphere of first-order transverse modes.

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