Title :
Exploring non-conservation of angular momentum in spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Author :
Feng, Sheng ; Chen, Chao-Hsiang ; Barbosa, Geraldo A. ; Kumar, Prem
Author_Institution :
Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, EECS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3118, USA
Abstract :
We propose an efficient method to measure the total angular momentum of the down-converted beams in the case that the angular momentum is not conserved due to azimuthal asymmetry in spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
Keywords :
Chaotic communication; Degradation; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical computing; Phase detection; Photonics Society; Physics computing; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431246
