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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
The polarizing Sagnac interferometer: a tool for light orbital angular momentum sorting and spin-orbit photon
S Slussarenko1, V D'Ambrosio, B Piccirillo
1Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
Abstract:
In this paper we show that an optical setup based on a polarizing Sagnac interferometer combined with a Dove prism can be used as a convenient general-purpose tool for the generation, detection and sorting of spin-orbit states of light. This device can work both in the classical and in the quantum single-photon regime, provides higher sorting efficiency and extinction ratio than usual hologram-fiber combinations, and shows much higher stability and ease of alignment than Mach-Zehnder interferometer setups. To demonstrate the full potential of this setup, we also report some demonstrative experiments of several possible applications of this setup.
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