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 :
Northwestern Univ., Evanston
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 :
angular momentum; optical frequency conversion; angular momentum nonconservation; azimuthal asymmetry; spontaneous parametric down-conversion; total angular momentum; Chaotic communication; Degradation; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical computing; Phase detection; Photonics Society; Physics computing; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453469
