Abstract
An important problem in the practical application of high-dimensional two-photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement generated by spontaneous down conversion is a lower degree of entanglement, where the amplitudes of modes are not uniformly distributed. In contrast to the previously raised entanglement concentration protocol, we here report on an experimental scheme that addresses this problem by tuning the two-photon quantum angular position correlation. An opaque mask with N evenly distributed angular slits having a radius r is inserted in the two-photon down-conversion light path. The number N should be such that the separation of adjacent angular slits is larger than the scale of the two-photon angular position correlation. The OAM entanglement for the two-photon state after the opaque mask is cast into a set of folded subbands with a dimension of N, owing to the reduction of rotational symmetry from continuous invariance to discrete invariance. Almost maximum OAM entanglement can be realized by properly setting the width of the angular slits.
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An important problem in the practical application of high-dimensional two-photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement generated by spontaneous down conversion is a lower degree of entanglement, where the amplitudes of modes are not uniformly distributed
The OAM entanglement for the two-photon state after the opaque mask is cast into a set of folded subbands with a dimension of N, owing to the reduction of rotational symmetry from continuous invariance to discrete invariance
Summary
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