Observation of a Nonlocal Optical Vortex

200935 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Rafael M. Gomes · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

A. Salles · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Fabricio Toscano · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

P. H. Souto Ribeiro · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

S. P. Walborn · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

We report the observation of an optical vortex in the correlations of photons produced from spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The singularity appears in a nonlocal coordinate plane consisting of 1 degree of freedom of each photon.

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Publication Details

Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 103, Issue 3, pp. 033602-033602

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.033602

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