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Phys. Rev. A 77, 015810 (2008) [4 pages]

Correlations in orbital angular momentum of spatially entangled paired photons generated in parametric down-conversion

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Clara I. Osorio1, Gabriel Molina-Terriza1,2, and Juan P. Torres1,3,*
1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
2ICREA-Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
3Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Received 22 May 2007; published 25 January 2008

What are the orbital angular momentum correlations between spatially entangled photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion? We show that the answer to this question can be given in two alternative, although complementary, ways. The answer posed in this Brief Report explains satisfactorily the seemingly contradictory results obtained in different experiments, and theoretical approaches.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.015810
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.015810
PACS:
42.65.Lm, 03.67.Mn, 42.50.Dv

*juan.perez@icfo.es