Downloading a PDF from Laravel 5.3 to AngularJS 1.5

I'm trying to download a PDF from Laravel to AngularJS, and using a bunch of different examples I've sort of gotten to a point where a PDF file downloads, but it is corrupted in some way. Can anyone see why this might be? I've added my test route and request:

// TEST ROUTE
Route::get('download', function () {

    if(Storage::disk('local')->exists('download.pdf')) {

        $filePath = storage_path('app/download.pdf');
        $headers = ['Content-Type: application/pdf'];

        return response()->download($filePath, $name = null, $headers);
    }

    return response()->json(['File does not exist.']);
});

// TEST REQUEST
$http({
    url: "/api/v1/download",
    method: "GET",
    responseType: "blob"
}).then(function (response) {

    var url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([response], {type: 'application/pdf'}));

    var a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = url;
    a.download = 'download.pdf';
    a.target = '_blank';
    a.click();

    // TODO: perform clean up of createObjectURL
    // TODO: add IE9 Blob shim

}).catch(function (reason) {

    console.log('FAIL', reason);
});

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