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Observation of Self-Healing in Single-Photon Space-Time Wave Packets

Bryan L. Turo, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Ayman F. Abouraddy

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally the self-healing of spatiotemporally structured single-photon wave packets. After traversing an opaque obstruction, the single-photon spatial profile (from an entangled-photon pair) is rapidly reconstituted, which may be useful for resilient quantum communication.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2025.ff118_8

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