Even-Order Aberration Cancellation in Quantum Interferometry
Cristian Bonato, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh +2 more
We report the first experimental demonstration of even-order aberration cancellation in quantum interferometry. The effect is a spatial counterpart of the spectral group velocity dispersion cancellation, which is associated with spectral entanglement. It is manifested in temporal interferometry by virtue of the multiparameter spatial-spectral entanglement. Spatially entangled photons, generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, were subjected to spatial aberrations introduced by a deformable mirror that modulates the wave front. We show that only odd-order spatial aberrations affect the quality of quantum interference.
arXiv:0807.2909•Physical Review Letters•Dec 2, 2008•45 citations