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Frontiers in Optics

Entanglement of Photonic Angular Qudits

Graciana Puentes, Giacomo Sorelli

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a scheme to generate maximally entangled states in D-dimensional quantum systems using angular diffraction masks containing N=D 1/2 angular slits in the arms of correlated twin photons produced by Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC).
DOI
10.1364/fio.2021.jth5a.3

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