Geometric States of Space in Michelson Interference
Valentina López, Daniel Peláez, Laura Sofía Bravo, Samuel Huertas Rojas, Román Castañeda · 2024
Non-paraxial interference in ordinary space has been described as the confinement of light, photons, and matter particles in geometric states of space, which are realized as spatially structured Lorentzian wells in the setup volume. Michelson interference is discussed in this framework by regarding the space states dependence from lengths of interferometer arms. It is optically equivalent to considering the space state vertices distributed in a three-dimensional region before the detector plane. This description is potentially relevant in devices where light comes from three-dimensional distributions of points, for instance, the outputs of waveguide arrays in optical or integrated photonics elements.