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Frontiers in Optics

Generation of Quantum Airy Photons

Santosh Kumar, Stephanie Maruca, Yong Meng Sua, Yu‐Ping Huang

Published Jan 1, 2018• 2 citations
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Abstract

Airy beams have been studied for many exciting applications. Here we extend those studies to the quantum domain by creating quantum-correlated photons in Airy spatial modes and explore their potential applications.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2018.fm3c.5

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