Measurement of degenerate orbital angular momentum qubits by stimulated emission tomography.

Authors

Seonghu Jung, Do-Kyeong Ko

Published in

Scientific reports. Jun 18, 2026. Epub Jun 18, 2026.

Abstract

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has acquired the interest of scientists due to its novel properties. The high-dimensional Hilbert space and entanglement that OAM offers make it a valuable DOF for many quantum optical protocols. However, conventional measurement of OAM state, which exploits coincidence count-based quantum state tomography (QST), suffers from low-brightness and subsequent need for data accumulation times. Such problems are a serious obstacle, especially for high-dimensional OAM qudits. In this work, we suggest stimulated emission tomography (SET) as a solution for bright and efficient measurement of OAM entangled photons. We show that SET can successfully extract information of SPDC photons by measuring the spiral bandwidth and reconstructing the density matrix of SPDC photons. The fidelity and linear entropy of the reconstructed density matrix are [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively, while the time required for each projective measurement is 1 s. Our results show the potential of SET as an efficient alternative to conventional QST.

PMID:
42315877
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