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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
Published on: February 4, 2017
Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations induced by orbital angular momentum
Adam R Altman1, Kahraman G Köprülü, Eric Corndorf
1Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, ECE Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3118, USA.
Abstract:
Through scanned coincidence counting, we probe the quantum image produced by parametric down-conversion with a pump-beam carrying orbital angular momentum. Nonlocal spatial correlations are manifested through splitting of the coincidence spot into two.
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