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Interferometric sorting of temporal Hermite-Gauss modes via temporal Gouy phase

Quantum Physics 2025-08-11 v3 Optics

Abstract

We propose a device consisting of mm Mach-Zehnder interferometers and realizing sorting of first 2m2^m temporal Hermite-Gauss modes of light passing though it by adjusting the accumulated temporal Gouy phase acquired by every mode. This mode-order-dependent phase shift is achieved by a fractional Fourier transform realized by a time lens in one of interferometer's arms. We consider application of such a sorter with just two interferometers to sorting the Schmidt modes of a photon pair generated in spontaneous parametric downconversion and find the theoretical lower bond on the cross-talk probability of 5.5%.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11918,
  title  = {Interferometric sorting of temporal Hermite-Gauss modes via temporal Gouy phase},
  author = {Dmitri B. Horoshko and Mikhail I. Kolobov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11918},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 6 figures. Final accepted version