Physical Review Letters
Experimental Generation of Continuous-Variable Hyperentanglement in an Optical Parametric Oscillator
Kui Liu, Jun Guo, Chunxiao Cai, Shuai-Feng Guo, Jiangrui Gao
Abstract
We report on the generation of continuous-variable hyperentanglement of polarization and orbital angular momentum with a type II optical parametric oscillator. By compensating for the astigmatism between spatial modes, we produce an entangled pair of Hermite-Gauss beams. From correlations measurements, we verify the existence of continuous-variable hyperentanglement by the general entanglement criterion as well as by the continuous-variable version of the Peres-Horodecki criterion visualized on an equivalent Poincaré sphere.