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Entangled Images from Four-Wave Mixing

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Vincent Boyer, Alberto M. Marino, Raphael C. Pooser, Paul D. Lett

Abstract

Two beams of light can be quantum mechanically entangled through correlations of their phase and intensity fluctuations. For a pair of spatially extended image-carrying light fields, the concept of entanglement can be applied not only to the entire images but also to their smaller details. We used a spatially multimode amplifier based on four-wave mixing in a hot vapor to produce twin images that exhibit localized entanglement. The images can be bright fields that display position-dependent quantum noise reduction in their intensity difference or vacuum twin beams that are strongly entangled when projected onto a large range of different spatial modes. The high degree of spatial entanglement demonstrates that the system is an ideal source for parallel continuous-variable quantum information protocols.
Citation
Science
Volume
321
Issue
1158275
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

alkali vapor, four-wave mixing, nonlinear optics, quadrature entanglement, quantum imaging, spatial entanglement, squeezed light

Citation

Boyer, V. , Marino, A. , Pooser, R. and Lett, P. (2008), Entangled Images from Four-Wave Mixing, Science, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=842458 (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created July 25, 2008, Updated February 17, 2017
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