title: How to observe high-dimensional two-photon entanglement with only two detectors.
abstract: We propose a novel setup to investigate the entanglement of orbital angular momentum states living in a high-dimensional Hilbert space. We incorporate noninteger spiral phase plates in spatial analyzers, enabling us to use only two detectors. The two-photon states that are produced are not confined to a 2 x 2-dimensional Hilbert space, and the setup allows the probing of correlations in a high-dimensional space. For the special case of half-integer spiral phase plates, we predict that the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt-Bell parameter S is larger than achievable for two qubits (S=2 sqrt[2]), namely, S=31 / 5.
authors.affiliation: Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: S S R
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Oemrawsingh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aiello
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Eliel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nienhuis
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Woerdman