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International Conference on Quantum Information

Generation and analysis of entangled two-photon states in spatial-parity space

Timothy M. Yarnall, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin Carl Teich

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of two-photon states entangled in the parity of their transverse spatial coordinates. Continuous superpositions of the |Φ+〉 and |Ψ+〉 Bell states are synthesized and analyzed with simple linear optical components.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2007.jwc31

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