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most citedPostselection-free controlled generation of a high-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum entangled state

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physics.app-ph2026

Scattering-robust Imaging of Azimuthal Features with Enhanced Resolution

Nilakshi Senapati, Abhinandan Bhattacharjee, Anand K Jha

Imaging through scattering media remains a long-standing challenge in numerous real-world applications, ranging from medical imaging to long-distance sensing. Recently, illuminatio…

physics.optics2026

Spatial coherence enabled sensorless adaptive optical imaging

Pranay Mohta, Shaurya Aarav, Hugo Defienne +1

Optical aberrations degrade imaging performance in label-free microscopy, where the absence of a guide star often necessitates sensorless adaptive optics (AO). Conventional sensorl…

physics.optics2026

Non-monotonic dependence of OAM Schmidt spectrum on crystal thickness

Harshal Jain, Suman Karan, Radhika Prasad +1

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons provides a high-dimensional resource for quantum information protocols. The dimensionality of OAM-entangled states generated via spont…

quant-ph2026

Radial Schmidt mode detector of entangled photons

Radhika Prasad, Nilakshi Senapati, Abhinandan Bhattacharjee +1

High-dimensional spatially entangled two-photon state generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion process (SPDC) has become a promising resource for several quantum informa…

quant-ph2026

Measuring the complete set of spatial Schmidt modes of entangled two-photon fields

Radhika Prasad, Nilakshi Senapati, Abhinandan Bhattacharjee +2

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is the most widely-used source of high-dimensional entangled two-photon states, and the entanglement in the spatial degree of freedom…

physics.optics2026

Noise-Resilient Imaging through Coherence Filtering

Pranay Mohta, Keval Moliya, Aniket Nag +2

Noise is a significant challenge in imaging. Conventional intensity-based techniques mitigate noise through various filtering methods, but they often require prior knowledge of noi…

physics.optics2026

OAM-mode sorting with a wavefront twister

Suman Karan, Swati Chaudhary, Harshwardhan Wanare +1

We propose an OAM sorter based on a novel optical element that we refer to as a wavefront twister. It is a generalization of the conventional wavefront rotators such as the Dove pr…

physics.optics2026

Polarization-preserving wavefront rotator

Suman Karan, Aman Srivastava, Pratham Sachin Todkar +1

A K-mirror rotates the wavefront of an incident optical field. However, the rotation always introduces polarization changes in the transmitted field. This is a serious concern for…

quant-ph2026

Observation of OAM non-conservation in entangled photon generation

Suman Karan, Anand K. Jha

Orbital angular momentum (OAM)-entangled states produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) are considered ideal for realizing high-dimensional entangled states, whic…

quant-ph2026

Theory of temporal three-photon interference

Nilakshi Senapati, Girish Kulkarni, Anand K. Jha

The recent demonstrations of cascaded PDC (CPDC) and the hopeful prospects of realizing third-order PDC (TOPDC) for the generation of three-photon entangled states are paving the w…

physics.app-ph2025

Super-resolution imaging of azimuthal features with illumination carrying OAM

Nilakshi Senapati, Abhinandan Bhattacharjee, Kedar Khare +1

Super-resolution imaging refers to imaging techniques that surpass the Rayleigh resolution limit. One standard way to achieve super-resolution is by structuring the phase of the fi…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

An experimental technique for measuring radial coherence

Radhika Prasad, Nilakshi Senapati, Suman Karan +4

Coherence refers to correlations between field vibrations at two separate points in degrees of freedom such as space, time, and polarisation. In the context of space, coherence the…

quant-ph2025

Broadband uniform-efficiency OAM-mode detector

Suman Karan, Martin P. Van Exter, Anand K. Jha

The high-dimensional basis of orbital angular momentum (OAM) has several added and unique advantages for photonics quantum technologies compared to the polarization basis, which is…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Structured position-momentum entangled two-photon fields

Radhika Prasad, Sanjana Wanare, Suman Karan +3

Structured optical fields have led to several ground-breaking techniques in classical imaging and microscopy. At the same time, in the quantum domain, position-momentum entangled p…

physics.optics2024

A wavefront rotator with near-zero mean polarization change

Suman Karan, Nilakshi Senapati, Anand K. Jha

A K-mirror is a device that rotates the wavefront of an incident optical field. It has recently gained prominence over Dove prism, another commonly used wavefront rotator, due to t…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Postselection-free controlled generation of a high-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum entangled state

Suman Karan, Radhika Prasad, Anand K. Jha

High-dimensional entangled states in orbital angular momentum (OAM) basis offer several unique advantages for quantum information applications. However, for the optimal performance…