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Hydrodynamic Insight Drives Multimodal Light_Field Dynamics via Streamline Engineering
Wenxiang Yan, Zheng Yuan, Yuan Gao +5
Since the 1970s, analogies between laser dynamics and fluid systems have provided insight into phenomena such as chaos, multistability, and turbulence. Building on this perspective…
Controlling Enhancement of Transmitted Goos-Hänchen Shifts: From Symmetric to Unidirectional
Zhuolin Wu, Weiming Zhen, Zhi-Cheng Ren +3
Since the discovery of the Goos-Hänchen (GH) shift in the 1940s, its deep connections to Fourier transforms and causality have led to widespread interest and applications in optics…
Observation of High-Order Quantum Pancharatnam-Berry Phase with Structured Photons
Shuang-Yin Huang, He Jiang, Zhi-Cheng Ren +6
When a quantum system evolves so that it returns to its initial state, it will acquire a geometric phase acting as a memory of the transformation of a physical system, which has be…
Vortex-Free Intrinsic Orbital Angular Momentum
Wenxiang Yan, Zheng Yuan, Yuan Gao +5
Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) has traditionally relied on vortex beams with helical phase fronts imparting quantized intrinsic OAM. Here, we introduce a fundamentally vort…
Postselection-Free Cavity-Enhanced Narrow-Band Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Source
Pei Wan, Wen-Zheng Zhu, Yan-Chao Lou +5
Cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) provides a significant way to produce 10 MHz narrow-band photon pairs, which matches the bandwidth of photon for…
Two-particle quantum interference in a nonlinear optical medium: a witness of timelike indistinguishability
Chao Chen, Shu-Tian Xue, Yu-Peng Shi +8
The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is a paradigmatic quantum phenomenon demonstrating the interference of two indistinguishable photons that are linearly coupled at a 50:50 beam splitter. H…
Three-Photon Polarization Entanglement of Green Light
Yan-Chao Lou, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Chao Chen +8
Recently, great progress has been made in the entanglement of multiple photons at various wavelengths and in different degrees of freedom for optical quantum information applied in…
Heralded High-Dimensional Photon-Photon Quantum Gate
Zhi-Feng Liu, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Pei Wan +10
High-dimensional encoding of quantum information holds the potential to greatly increase the computational power of existing devices by enlarging the accessible state space for fix…
Versatile manipulation of light- and dark- seeking particles on demand
Zheng Yuan, Chenchen Zhang, Yuan Gao +5
We propose a novel approach to enable the agile manipulation of light- and dark-seeking particles. Our approach involves introducing a two-curvilinear perfect optical vortex beam (…
Berry Curvature and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence from Transport Measurement for Photonic Chern Bands
Chao Chen, Run-Ze Liu, Jizhou Wu +12
Berry curvature is a fundamental element to characterize topological quantum physics, while a full measurement of Berry curvature in momentum space was not reported for topological…
Manipulating spatial structure of high-order quantum coherence with entangled photons
Shuang-Yin Huang, Jing Gao, Zhi-Cheng Ren +10
High-order quantum coherence reveals the statistical correlation of quantum particles. Manipulation of quantum coherence of light in temporal domain enables to produce single-photo…
New orbital angular momentum multiplexing strategy: beyond the capacity limit of free-space optical communication
Wenxiang Yan, Yuan Gao, Xian Long +5
Free space optical (FSO) communication can exploit mode-division multiplexing using orthogonal spatial modes of Laguerre Gaussian beams, such as orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode…
Control of quantum coherence of photons exploiting quantum entanglement
Dianzhen Cui, Xi-Lin Wang, X. X. Yi +1
Accurately controlling the quantum coherence of photons is pivotal for their applications in quantum sensing and quantum imaging. Here, we propose the utilization of quantum entang…
Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference between Two Hyper-Entangled Photons Enables Observation of Symmetric and Anti-Symmetric Particle Exchange Phases
Zhi-Feng Liu, Chao Chen, Jia-Min Xu +10
Two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a fundamental quantum effect with no classical counterpart. The exiting researches on two-photon interference were mainly limited in…
Customizable Laguerre-Gaussian Perfect Vortex Beams
Wenxiang Yan, Zheng Yuan, Yuan Gao +4
The recognition in the 1990s that vortex beams (VBs), paraxial light beams with optical vortices, carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), has benefited applications ranging from opti…
Versatile Non-diffracting Perfect Vortex Beams
Wenxiang Yan, Yuan Gao, Zheng Yuan +5
The rapid scale broadening and divergence increasing of vortex beams (VBs) with orbital angular momentum (OAM), e.g., Laguerre-Gaussian beams, severely impede the wide applications…
Manipulating propagation and evolution of polarization singularities in composite Bessel-like fields
Xinglin Wand, Wenxiang Yan, Yuan Gao +5
Structured optical fields embedded with polarization singularities (PSs) have attracted extensive attention due to their capability to retain topological invariance during propagat…
Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Pseudotelepathy
Jia-Min Xu, Yi-Zheng Zhen, Yu-Xiang Yang +5
Quantum pseudotelepathy is a strong form of nonlocality. Different from the conventional non-local games where quantum strategies win statistically, e.g., the Clauser-Horne-Shimony…
Nonlinear manipulation of orbital angular momentum spectra with second- and third- harmonic generation in a quasi-periodically poled crystal
Yu-Xiang Yang, Bo-Wen Dong, Zhi-Cheng Ren +7
Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM), as an important degree of freedom of light, has been attracted extensive attention, due to its intrinsic feature of natural discrete infinit…
Third-harmonic generation of spatially structured light in a quasi-periodically poled crystal
Yan-Chao Lou, Zi-Mo Cheng, Yu-Xiang Yang +4
Nonlinear optical processes of spatially structured light, including optical vortex and vector optical fields, have stimulated a lot of interesting physical effects and found a var…
Experimental self-testing for photonic graph states
Jia-Min Xu, Qing Zhou, Yu-Xiang Yang +5
Graph states -- one of the most representative families of multipartite entangled states, are important resources for multiparty quantum communication, quantum error correction, an…
Directly Measuring a Multiparticle Quantum Wave Function via Quantum Teleportation
Ming-Cheng Chen, Yuan Li, Run-Ze Liu +7
We propose a new method to directly measure a general multi-particle quantum wave function, a single matrix element in a multi-particle density matrix, by quantum teleportation. Th…
Experimental demonstration of quantum pigeonhole paradox
Ming-Cheng Chen, Chang Liu, Yi-Han Luo +7
We experimentally demonstrate that when three single photons transmit through two polarization channels, in a well-defined pre- and postselected ensemble, there are no two photons…
Polarization interferometric prism: a versatile tool for generation of vector fields, measurement of topological charges and implementation of a spin-orbit Controlled-Not gate
Zhi-Cheng Ren, Zi-Mo Cheng, Xi-Lin Wang +2
Optical vortex and vector field are two important types of structured optical fields. Due to their wide applications and unique features in many scientific realms, the generation,…