Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Angular dimensionality of two-photon entanglement

J. B. Pors, Sumant S. R. Oemrawsingh, Martin P. van Exter, Andrea Aiello, Gert W. ’t Hooft, E. R. Eliel, J. P. Woerdman

Published May 4, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

We pass twin-photons through rotatable angular phase plates, and detect entanglement that has a continuously variable angular dimensionality D. Experimentally, D was varied from 2 to 6 and values up to 50 are practically feasible.

DOI: 10.1109/qels.2008.4553051

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