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Frontiers in Optics

Toward Generation of Orbital-Angular-Momentum-Entangled Photon Pairs in a Few-Mode Fiber

Afshin Shamsshooli, Cheng Guo, Francesca R. Parmigiani, Xiaoying Li, Michael Vasilyev

Published Jan 1, 2020• 12 citations
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Abstract

We describe a novel scheme for generation of orbital-angular-momentum-entangled photons in a few-mode fiber. We experimentally verify the underlying inter-modal parametric processes with two-mode classical signal input, observing high mode purity of the generated idler.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2020.fm1d.2

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