Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference
Two-photon interference is an important effect that is tightly related to the quantum nature of light. Recently, it has been shown that the photon bunching from the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect can be used for quantum imaging in which sample properties (reflection/transmission amplitude, phase delay,...
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| description | Two-photon interference is an important effect that is tightly related to the quantum nature of light. Recently, it has been shown that the photon bunching from the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect can be used for quantum imaging in which sample properties (reflection/transmission amplitude, phase delay, or polarization) can be characterized at the pixel-by-pixel level. In this work, we perform Jones matrix imaging for an unknown object based on two-photon interference. By using a reference metasurface with panels of known polarization responses in pairwise coincidence measurements, the object’s polarization responses at each pixel can be retrieved from the dependence of the coincidence visibility as a function of the reference polarization. The post-selection of coincidence images with specific reference polarization in our approach eliminates the need in switching the incident polarization and thus parallelized optical measurements for Jones matrix characterization. The parallelization in preparing input states, prevalent in any quantum algorithms, is an advantage of adopting two-photon interference in Jones matrix imaging. We believe our work points to the usage of metasurfaces in biological and medical imaging in the quantum optical regime. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b49e1b404f64d77a2d6afcce54cd6312024-11-25T11:19:08ZengDe GruyterNanophotonics2192-86062192-86142022-10-0112357958810.1515/nanoph-2022-0499Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interferenceYung Tsz Kit0Liang Hong1Xi Jiawei2Tam Wing Yim3Li Jensen4Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, ChinaTwo-photon interference is an important effect that is tightly related to the quantum nature of light. Recently, it has been shown that the photon bunching from the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect can be used for quantum imaging in which sample properties (reflection/transmission amplitude, phase delay, or polarization) can be characterized at the pixel-by-pixel level. In this work, we perform Jones matrix imaging for an unknown object based on two-photon interference. By using a reference metasurface with panels of known polarization responses in pairwise coincidence measurements, the object’s polarization responses at each pixel can be retrieved from the dependence of the coincidence visibility as a function of the reference polarization. The post-selection of coincidence images with specific reference polarization in our approach eliminates the need in switching the incident polarization and thus parallelized optical measurements for Jones matrix characterization. The parallelization in preparing input states, prevalent in any quantum algorithms, is an advantage of adopting two-photon interference in Jones matrix imaging. We believe our work points to the usage of metasurfaces in biological and medical imaging in the quantum optical regime.https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0499jones-matrix imagingquantum imagingquantum metasurfacestwo-photon interference |
| spellingShingle | Yung Tsz Kit Liang Hong Xi Jiawei Tam Wing Yim Li Jensen Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference Nanophotonics jones-matrix imaging quantum imaging quantum metasurfaces two-photon interference |
| title | Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference |
| title_full | Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference |
| title_fullStr | Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference |
| title_full_unstemmed | Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference |
| title_short | Jones-matrix imaging based on two-photon interference |
| title_sort | jones matrix imaging based on two photon interference |
| topic | jones-matrix imaging quantum imaging quantum metasurfaces two-photon interference |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0499 |
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