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This work proposes the use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) waves to improve the performance of a computational imaging (CI) system. Specifically, in contrast to a solely frequency-diverse operation, leveraging multiple OAM waves leads to…

Quantum protocols require access to large-scale entangled quantum states, due to the requirement of channel capacity. As a promising candidate, the high-dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) entangled states have been implemented, but…

The spatial modes of light, carrying a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM), is one of the excellent candidates that provides access to high-dimensional quantum states, which essentially makes it promising towards building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Chengyuan Wang , Ya Yu , Yun Chen , Jinwen Wang , Xin Yang , Shuwei Qiu , Dong Wei , Mingtao Cao , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

The large number of available orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of photons provides a unique resource for many important applications in quantum information and optical communications. However, conventional OAM switching devices usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

The orbital angular momentum, OAM, of photons offers a suitable support to carry the quantum data of multiple users. We present two novel optical setups that send the information of n quantum communication parties through the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons provides a pivotal resource for carrying out high-dimensional classical and quantum information processing due to its unique discrete high-dimensional nature. The cyclic transformation of a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Y. F. Yang , M. Y. Chen , F. P. Li , Y. P. Ruan , Z. X. Li , M. Xiao , H. Zhang , K. Y. Xia

High-dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) enhances information efficiency and noise tolerance by encoding data in large Hilbert spaces. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light provides a scalable basis for such encoding and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Huan Zhang , Zhenyu Cao , Yu Sun , Hu Jin

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields, especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the severely congested spectrum of commercial communication systems. Beams…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Rui Chen , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light possesses in addition to its usual helicity ($s=\pm \hbar$, depending on its circular polarization) an orbital angular momentum $l$. This means that in principle one can transfer more than a single…

Light with helical phase structures, carrying quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM), has many applications in both classical and quantum optics, such as high-capacity optical communications and quantum information processing. Frequency…

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) guarantees the security of communication with quantum physics. Most of widely adopted QKD protocols currently encode the key information with binary signal format---qubit, such as the polarization states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Fumin Wang , Pei Zeng , Xiaoli Wang , Hong Gao , Fuli Li , Pei Zhang

Quantum state tomography is an important tool for quantum communication, computation, metrology, and simulation. Efficient quantum state tomography on a high dimensional quantum system is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Ruifeng Liu , Junling Long , Pei Zhang , Russell E. Lake , Hong Gao , David P. Pappas , Fuli Li

Over the past three decades, quantum mechanics has allowed the development of technologies that provide unconditionally secure communication. In parallel, the quantum nature of the transverse electromagnetic field has spawned the field of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 Mehul Malik , Robert W. Boyd

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an infinite-dimensional degree of freedom of light with several applications in both classical and quantum optics. However, to fully take advantage of the potential of OAM states, reliable…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, associated with a helical structure of the wavefunction, has a great potential for quantum photonics, as it allows attaching a higher dimensional quantum space to each photon. Hitherto, however,…

Photons can carry spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM), which can be used to realize a qubit system and a high-dimension system respectively. This spin-orbital system is very suitable for implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Pei Zhang , Bi-Heng Liu , Rui-Feng Liu , Hong-Rong Li , Fu-Li Li , Guang-Can Guo

Light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) are convenient carriers of quantum information. They can be also used for imparting rotational motion to particles and provide high resolution in imaging. Due to the conservation of OAM in…

The existing techniques for measuring high-dimensional pure states of light in the orbital angular momentum (OAM) basis either involve a large number of single-pixel data acquisitions and substantial postselection errors that increase with…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-11 Girish Kulkarni , Suman Karan , Anand K. Jha

We develop a weak measurement scheme for measuring orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light based on the global topology in wave function. We introduce the spin-orbit coupling to transform the measurement of OAM to the pre- and postselected…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Junfan Zhu , An Wang , Yurong Liu , Fuhua Gao , Zhiyou Zhang