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Generation of single photons carrying spin and orbital angular momenta (SAM and OAM) opens enticing perspectives for exploiting multiple degrees of freedom for high-dimensional quantum systems. However, on-chip generation of single photons…

We theoretically analyze stimulated parametric down conversion as a means to produce dichroism based on the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of an incident signal field. The nonlinear interaction is shown to provide differential gain between…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-19 Joseph Lowney , Thomas Roger , Daniele Faccio , Ewan M. Wright

Light with spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) is a recently discovered type of structured and localized electromagnetic field. This field carries characteristic space-time spiral phase structure and transverse intrinsic OAM.…

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM), as an important degree of freedom of light, has been attracted extensive attention, due to its intrinsic feature of natural discrete infinite dimension. Manipulation of OAM spectra is crucial for many…

Maximally entangled photon pairs with a spatial degree of freedom is a potential way for realizing high-capacity quantum computing and communication. However, methods to generate such entangled states with high quality, high brightness, and…

The spatial modes of light, carrying a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM), is one of the excellent candidates that provides access to high-dimensional quantum states, which essentially makes it promising towards building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Chengyuan Wang , Ya Yu , Yun Chen , Jinwen Wang , Xin Yang , Shuwei Qiu , Dong Wei , Mingtao Cao , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Quantum entanglement, the non-separability of a multipartite wave function, became essential in understanding the non-locality of quantum mechanics. In optics, this non-locality can be demonstrated on impressively large length scales, as…

It has been known for a century that electromagnetic fields can transport not only energy and linear momentum but also angular momentum. However, it was not until twenty years ago, with the discovery in laser optics of experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Bo Thidé , Fabrizio Tamburini , Elettra Mari , Filippo Romanato , Cesare Barbieri

The exploration of light has traditionally focused on its spatial properties, particularly its orbital angular momentum (OAM), while its temporal dynamics have remained an underexplored frontier due to the slow response times of existing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-24 Michael de Oliveira , Antonio Ambrosio

The traditional algorithm of collisional process in DSMC method, used for calculation of velocities of molecules after collision, is based on the conservation laws for linear momentum and total energy. This algorithm does not provide…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr A. Skovorodko

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an infinite-dimensional degree of freedom of light with several applications in both classical and quantum optics. However, to fully take advantage of the potential of OAM states, reliable…

We develop and experimentally verify a theory of Type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in media with inhomogeneous distributions of second-order nonlinearity. As a special case, we explore interference effects from SPDC…

Single photons with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted substantial attention from researchers. A single photon can carry infinite OAM values theoretically. Thus, OAM photon states have been widely used in quantum information and…

To date, orbital angular momentum (OAM) and optical frequency combs (OFCs) are two distinct fields of research without any association. Herein, we generated OFCs with an OAM on each comb line by applying electro-optic phase modulation to…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-04 Jinze He , Xingyu Jia , Bingyan Wei , Guanhao Wu , Yang Li

High-dimensional entanglement has demonstrated potential for increasing channel capacity and resistance to noise in quantum information processing. However, its distribution is a challenging task, imposing a severe restriction on its…

So far experimental confirmation of entanglement has been restricted to qubits, i.e. two-state quantum systems including recent realization of three- and four-qubit entanglements. Yet, an ever increasing body of theoretical work calls for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alois Mair , Alipasha Vaziri , Gregor Weihs , Anton Zeilinger

In this paper we consider geometrical two-photon optics of Bessel-Gaussian modes generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion of a Gaussian pump beam. We provide a general theoretical expression for the orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Melanie McLaren , Jacquiline Romero , Miles J. Padgett , Filippus S. Roux , Andrew Forbes

We make a source of entangled photons (SEP) using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a non-linear crystal and study the spatial distribution of photon pairs obtained through the down-conversion of different modes of light…

Optical vortex beams are profiled as helical wavefronts with a phase singularity carrying an orbital angular momentum (OAM) associated with their spatial distribution. The transverse intensity distribution of a conventional optical vortex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Ali Anwar , Shashi Prabhakar , R. P. Singh

We experimentally study the behavior of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light in a noncollinear second harmonic generation (SHG) process. The experiment is performed by using a type I BBO crystal under phase matching conditions with…