Author:Zhang, Y; Roux, FX; McLaren, M; Forbes, ADate:2014The radial degrees of freedom of the biphoton states that are produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) basis are investigated, theoretically and experimentally. We calculated the theoretical ...Read more
Author:McLaren, M; Mhlanga, T; Padgett, MJ; Roux, FS; Forbes, ADate:Feb 2014Quantum entanglement between photon pairs is fragile and can easily be masked by losses in transmission path and noise in the detection system. When observing the quantum entanglement between the spatial states of photon pairs produced by ...Read more
Author:Dudley, Angela LDate:Jan 2012The work presented in this thesis is centred on the generation of superimposed optical fields which each carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the development of OAM measurement techniques. Optical fields which carry OAM have found ...Read more
Author:McLaren, M; Romero, J; Padgett, MJ; Roux, FS; Forbes, ADate:Sep 2013In this paper we consider geometrical two-photon optics of Bessel-Gaussian modes generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion of a Gaussian pump beam. We provide a general theoretical expression for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) ...Read more
Author:Nape, I; Mashaba, Nikiwe P; Mphuthi, N; Jayakumar, S; Bhattacharya, S; Forbes, AndrewDate:Mar 2021Vector beams are inhomogeneously polarized optical fields with nonseparable, quantum-like correlations between their polarization and spatial components, and hold tremendous promise for classical and quantum communication across various ...Read more