Experimental Demonstration of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement of Two Photons
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- 8 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (24), 240501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.240501
Abstract
The singular nature of a noninteger spiral phase plate allows easy manipulation of spatial degrees of freedom of photon states. Using two such devices, we have observed very high-dimensional spatial entanglement of twin photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion.Keywords
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