7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=16&confId=34"><font color=#0000ff>SAIP2014 Proceedings published on 17 April 2015</font></a>

Self-healing of quantum entanglement

9 Jul 2014, 17:10
1h 50m
D Ring ground level

D Ring ground level

Board: C.144
Poster Presentation Track C - Photonics Poster2

Speaker

Ms Melanie McLaren (CSIR)

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

PhD

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Bessel-Gaussian (BG) beams have been the subject of great interest for many years, particularly due to their non-diffracting nature. The ability of BG beams to self-heal their fields after encountering an obstruction has typically been used in classical light applications, such as optical trapping. However, we show that this property extends to the quantum regime. An obstacle placed in the propagation path of the entangled photons causes a loss in the measured entanglement. By comparing two different bases, the Laguerre-Gaussian and BG, we show that recovery of the measured entanglement only occurs when the photons are projected into the BG basis.

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

Yes

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

No

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof. Andrew Forbes, aforbes1@csir.co.za, CSIR

Primary author

Co-authors

Prof. Andrew Forbes (CSIR) Dr Filippus Roux (CSIR) Prof. Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow) Ms Thandeka Mhlanga (CSIR)

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