Hannover 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 66: Quantum Information: Photons and Nonclassical Light III
Q 66.1: Vortrag
Freitag, 12. März 2010, 14:00–14:15, E 214
Squeezing in Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Doughnut Modes — •Christian Gabriel1,2, Wenjia Zhong1,2, Andrea Aiello1,2, Peter Banzer1,2, Dominique Elser1,2, Michael Förtsch1,2, Ulrik L. Andersen1,2,3, Christoph Marquardt1,2, and Gerd Leuchs1,2 — 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Guenther-Scharowsky-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany — 2Institute for Optics, Information and Photonics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstr. 7/B2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany — 3Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
So far experiments in quantum imaging have solely concentrated on taking advantage of the spatial properties of light. However, exploiting more than one degree of freedom, such as the spatial mode as well as the polarization, offers new opportunities to improve continuous variable quantum information processing protocols. We present a theoretical investigation of squeezed states in an azimuthally and radially polarized doughnut mode. These not only have a complex spatial but also a complex polarization structure. Squeezing in these modes is a manifestation of entanglement between two other spatio-polarization modes which are symmetric and antisymmetric superpositions of the initial modes; for example the vertically polarized TEM01 mode and the horizontally polarized TEM10 mode in the case of a quantum noise reduction of a radially polarized doughnut mode and its counter part.