Frontiers in Optics

Violation of Bell's inequality with photons from independent sources

T. B. Pittman, J. D. Franson

Published Jan 1, 2003• 4 citations

Abstract

We report a violation of Bell’s inequality using one photon from a pulsed parametric down-conversion pair and a second photon from a weak coherent state. The experiment relied on post-selected three-photon interference effects that also have direct applications in linear optics quantum computing.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2003.wf2

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