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Is orbital angular momentum always conserved in spontaneous parametric down-conversion?
In the non-linear optical process of type-II spontaneous parametric
down-conversion, we present on an experiment showing that the two-photon
detection amplitude of the down-converted beams does not generally reproduce
the transverse profile of the pump beam that carries non-zero orbital angular
momentum. We explain this observation by that orbital angular momentum is not
conserved in the type-II non-linear process due to the broken rotational
symmetry of the Hamiltonian.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Revise
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