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Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Stimulated Down-Conversion

D. P. Caetano, M. P. Almeida, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, J. A. O. Huguenin, B. Coutinho dos Santos, A. Z. Khoury

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0108101

Abstract

We report on an experiment demonstrating the conservation of orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion. The orbital angular momentum is not transferred to the individual beams of the spontaneous down-conversion, but it is conserved when twin photons are taken individually. We observe the conservation law for an individual beam of the down-conversion through cavity-free stimulated emission.

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