Structured light

A Forbes, M De Oliveira, MR Dennis - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

Advances in quantum cryptography

S Pirandola, UL Andersen, L Banchi… - Advances in optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

F Xu, X Ma, Q Zhang, HK Lo, JW Pan - Reviews of modern physics, 2020 - APS
In principle, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers information-theoretic security based on
the laws of physics. In practice, however, the imperfections of realistic devices might …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum of light for communications

AE Willner, K Pang, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …

Advances in high-dimensional quantum entanglement

M Erhard, M Krenn, A Zeilinger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Since its discovery, quantum entanglement has challenged some of the best established
views of the world: locality and reality. Quantum technologies promise to revolutionize …

High‐dimensional quantum communication: benefits, progress, and future challenges

D Cozzolino, B Da Lio, D Bacco… - Advanced Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, there has been a rising interest in high‐dimensional quantum states and
their impact on quantum communication. Indeed, the availability of an enlarged Hilbert …

Arbitrarily structured quantum emission with a multifunctional metalens

C Li, J Jang, T Badloe, T Yang, J Kim, J Kim, M Nguyen… - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Structuring light emission from single-photon emitters (SPEs) in multiple degrees of freedom
is of great importance for quantum information processing towards higher dimensions …

Overcoming noise in entanglement distribution

S Ecker, F Bouchard, L Bulla, F Brandt, O Kohout… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Noise can be considered the natural enemy of quantum information. An often implied benefit
of high-dimensional entanglement is its increased resilience to noise. However, manifesting …

Roadmap on multimode photonics

I Cristiani, C Lacava, G Rademacher… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multimode devices and components have attracted considerable attention in the last years,
and different research topics and themes have emerged very recently. The multimodality can …