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Measurement-based tailoring of Anderson localization of partially coherent light

Quantum Physics 2014-05-09 v3

Abstract

We put forward an experimental configuration to observe transverse Anderson localization of partially coherent light beams with a tunable degree of first-order coherence. The scheme makes use of entangled photons propagating in disordered waveguide arrays, and is based on the unique relationship between the degree of entanglement of a pair of photons and the coherence properties of the individual photons constituting the pair. The scheme can be readily implemented with current waveguide-on-a-chip technology, and surprisingly, the tunability of the coherence properties of the individual photons is done at the measurement stage, without resorting changes of the light source itself.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2999,
  title  = {Measurement-based tailoring of Anderson localization of partially coherent light},
  author = {Jiří Svozilík and Jan Peřina and Juan P. Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2999},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, additional corrections