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Direct Measurement of the Photon’s Spatial Wave Function

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We overview recent progress in the tomography of structured light fields, with an emphasis on the method of direct measurement. Direct measurement provides a scalable and easy- to-implement approach for characterizing the transverse structure of single photons. This protocol is particularly attractive in light of the emerging role of high-dimensional optical states as a resource for encoding quantum information. We present a summary of various implementations of this technique that aim to characterize the spatial degree of freedom of the optical field.

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    Mohammad Mirhosseini & Robert W. Boyd

  2. Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

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Mirhosseini, M., Lundeen, J.S., Boyd, R.W. (2019). Direct Measurement of the Photon’s Spatial Wave Function. In: Boyd, R., Lukishova, S., Zadkov, V. (eds) Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98402-5_2

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