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arXiv:quant-ph/0506253 · Physical Review Letters

Experimental Demonstration of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement of Two Photons

Sumant S. R. Oemrawsingh, Xuan Ma, D. Voigt, Andrea Aiello, E. R. Eliel, Gert W. ’t Hooft, J. P. Woerdman

Published Dec 8, 2005• 243 citations
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Abstract

The singular nature of a noninteger spiral phase plate allows easy manipulation of spatial degrees of freedom of photon states. Using two such devices, we have observed very high-dimensional spatial entanglement of twin photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.95.240501

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