Abstract

Multiple-scattering has become an exciting platform for quantum optical experiments [1-5]. In wavefront shaping one uses spatial light modulation in combination with strongly scattering materials to achieve control over light in space and time [6]. Recent wavefront-shaping experiments have transformed opaque media in equivalents of waveguides, lenses, waveplates and optical pulse compressors that are inherently robust against disorder and imaging errors. In quantum optics, interference of quantum states is studied in often complicated optical circuits. This requires a close-to-perfect implementation of the setup and provides little flexibility or programmability of the interference. We implement the radically different approach to apply wavefront shaping on quantum light to obtain ample flexibility in optimization and manipulation of the quantum interference. This offers unique opportunities for sample characterization, quantum patterning, secure key generation, or quantum transport through disordered media.

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