Published October 2002 | Version v1
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Conservation of orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion

Creators

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BR-24210-340 Niteroi, RJ (Brazil)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-972 (Brazil)

Description

We report on an experiment demonstrating the conservation of the orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion. It has been demonstrated that the orbital angular momentum is not transferred to the individual beams of the spontaneous down-conversion. It is also known that 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

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.041801;
arXiv
arXiv:quant-ph/0108101v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 041801-041801.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36044791
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BIFURCATION; CONVERSION; OPTICS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STIMULATED EMISSION
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMISSION; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MECHANICS

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