Huygens-Fresnel principle for N-photon states of light (1011.1402v2)

Published 5 Nov 2010 in quant-ph and physics.optics

Abstract: We show that the propagation of a N-photon field in space and time can be described by a generalized Huygens-Fresnel integral. Using two examples, we then demonstrate how familiar Fourier optics techniques applied to a N-photon wave function can be used to engineer the propagation of entanglement and to design the way the detection of one photon shapes the state of the others.

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E. Brainis

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