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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Mode counting in high-dimensional orbital angular momentum entanglement
M P van Exter1, P S K Lee, S Doesburg
1Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. mvexter@molphys.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract:
We study the high-dimensional orbital angular momentum OAM) entanglement contained in the spatial profiles of two quantum-correlated photons. For this purpose, we use a multi-mode two-photon interferometer with an image rotator in one of the interferometer arms. By measuring the two-photon visibility as a function of the image rotation angle we measure the azimuthal Schmidt number, i.e., we count the number of OAM modes involved in the entanglement; in our setup this number is tunable from 1 to 8.
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