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Frontiers in Optics

Spatial entanglement and orbital angular momentum

Martin P. van Exter, H. Di Lorenzo Pires

Published Jan 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

We review a series of experiments on spatial entanglement, both in two dimensions and in orbital angular moment. Two-photon scattering is introduced as tool to quantify the dimensionality of the entanglement and proof its purity.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2011.ltui4

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