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Frontiers in Optics

Demonstration of Dynamical Refraction of Space-Time Wave Packets

Мurat Yessenov, Basanta Bhaduri, Ayman F. Abouraddy

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that endowing a wave-packet with judicious spatio-temporal correlations unveils remarkable dynamical refractive phenomena, such as group-velocity invariance with respect to the refractive index, group-delay cancellation, and anomalous group-velocity increase in higher-index materials.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2019.fth3b.5

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The speed of light is nominally given by c/n, where n is the refractive index of the medium in which the light is traveling. Since the refractive index of free space is 1, it is natural to expect that light travels at c in free space. We show that this is not the case if one considers real beams that have finite transverse extent. The modification of the wavevectors comprising the beam result in a change in the phase and group velocities. We study the group velocity of single photons, whose arrival times are unambiguously established by a click in a single-photon detector.We generate time-correlated photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. One photon is sent through a fiber delay of a fixed length; the arrival time of this photon is the reference time to which we compare the arrival time of the other photon, which we can choose to be either unstructured or structured. The structuring is done by spatial light modulators that can be switched on and off, hence allowing photons to travel through exactly the same optical path, much like in a race. We consider photons in a Bessel mode and a focused Gaussian mode, and show that in both cases, the reduction in group velocity results in a delay of several micrometers over a propagation distance of 1 m or ~30 femtoseconds in terms of arrival time. The effect is well-understood from a geometric argument and from a rigorous calculation of the harmonic average of the group velocity, and hence, is not anomalous at all. Our work highlights that, even in free space, the invariance of the speed of light only applies to plane waves.