Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Simultaneous entanglement swapping of multiple orbital angular momentum states of light

  • Yingwen Zhang,
  • Megan Agnew,
  • Thomas Roger,
  • Filippus S. Roux,
  • Thomas Konrad,
  • Daniele Faccio,
  • Jonathan Leach,
  • Andrew Forbes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00706-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Entanglement swapping in high dimensions requires large numbers of entangled photons and consequently suffers from low photon flux. Here the authors demonstrate entanglement swapping of multiple spatial modes of light simultaneously, without the need for increasing the photon numbers with dimension.