Affiliation:
1. Tsinghua University
2. University of Southampton
Abstract
Classically entangled light is used to refer to a class of structured beams with space–polarization, polarization–time, and space–time non-separable states akin to entangled states, which enable novel quantum-analog methods and applications in structured light. Here, we argue that classical entanglement is also available for pure scalar beams with multiple non-separable spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs). We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a class of scalar ray–wave structured light with multiple controllable local DoFs to emulate multipartite entangled states, including the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger states. Our work unveils a rich parameter space for high-dimensional and multi-DoF control of structured light to extend applications in classical–quantum regimes.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Cited by
8 articles.
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