Abstract
We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) correlations, and the amount of spatial entanglement, of paired photons generated in spontaneous parametric downconver- sion are strongly affected by the use of noncollinear configurations and by the presence of Poynting vector walk-off. We discuss how our results are related to the question of the conservation of OAM in a nonlinear optics process, and we derive selection rules that allow to determine the sought-after OAM correlations, especially for those configurations used in current quantum information experiments.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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