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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2025

Tutorial: Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with structured photons.

Tareq Jaouni, Xuemei Gu, Mario Krenn, Alessio D'Errico, Ebrahim Karimi

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tareq JaouniNexus for Quantum Technologies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5661-2403
Xuemei GuMax Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0734-432X
Mario KrennMax Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1620-9207
Alessio D'ErricoNexus for Quantum Technologies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-4328
Ebrahim KarimiNexus for Quantum Technologies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8168-7304

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Abstract

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, an effective two-photon interference phenomenon, is a cornerstone of quantum optics and a key tool for linear optical quantum information processing. While the HOM effect has been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally for various photonic quantum states, particularly in the spectral domain, detailed overviews of its behaviour for structured photons - those with complex spatial profiles - under arbitrary spatial mode measurement schemes are still lacking. This tutorial aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the HOM effect for structured photons, including an arbitrary mode projection on quantum interference outcomes. The tutorial also provides analytical, closed-form expressions of the HOM visibility under different measurement conditions.

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Hong-Ou-MandelLaugerre Gauss modesorbital angular momentumstructured photonstwo-photon interferometry

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PMID41246508
PMCPMC12617715

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