Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Entangling spatial modes within a single beam

Jiří Janoušek, K. Wagner, Jean‐François Morizur, Nicolas Treps, Ping Koy Lam, C. C. Harb, Hans‐A. Bachor

Published Jun 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

In this paper, simple demonstration was presented to produce and measure entanglement, all within a single beam. Accessing and manipulating the expanded basis of transverse spatial modes makes this technology an interesting contender for optical quantum protocols.

DOI: 10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2009.5191702

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