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Frontiers in Optics

Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy wavepackets

Jianmin Wang, Ying Zuo, Xingchang Wang, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Georgios A. Siviloglou, J. F. Chen

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have demonstrated for the first time spatiotemporal nonspreading quantum Airy photons with long coherence times by merging quantum optics in cold atomic ensembles and nondiffracting spatial photonics.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2023.jm7a.104

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