THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 8th of December 2016, at 10:15 a.m.

Michał Jachura (KOKiFA, IFT WFUW)

will give a talk on

"From two-photon interference to quantum holography"

Abstract
Recent developements in single-photon-sensitive cameras have substantially stimulated the exploration of quantum phenomena such as ghost imaging or EPR-correlations. It also resulted in the first recording of Hong-Ou-Mandel effect being one of the most direct manifestation of quantum nature of light. In further experiments we observed that the excellent spatial resolution of the camera enables to restore sub-shot noise sensitivity in quantum-enhanced interferometry. Finally we showed that the spatial wavefunction of the unknown photon can be fully recovered from the spatial pattern resulting from its two-photon interference with the reference photon in a scheme similar to optical holography. In my talk I am going to discuss the results of aforementioned experiments and concisely present current research directions related to single photon spatial structure.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.