Direct observation of OAM correlations from spatially entangled bi-photon states.
Opt Express
; 27(18): 25228-25240, 2019 Sep 02.
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ABSTRACT
We present spatially-resolved observations of orbital angular momentum (OAM) conservation, via a Laguerre-Gauss (LG) basis decomposition, of spatially-entangled photon pairs produced in type-I collinear spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC). These results were obtained with a novel detection system for OAM-entangled photon pairs that combines a projective measurement for the signal photon to a specific value of the azimuthal index ls, with a spatially-resolved measurement for the idler photon using an intensified charge coupled (ICCD) camera. In combination with far-field diffraction of the idler photon through a triangular aperture, we are able to obtain i) the spatial structure of the heralded idler photon, as governed by the user-selected topological charge of the signal photon; ii) the OAM spectrum; and iii) the topological charge (both magnitude and sign) for the heralded idler photon.
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