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Classical Entanglement in Electromagnetic Beams

Kumel H. Kagalwala, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

We study classical entanglement for an optical beam with two binary degrees of freedom: polarization and spatial parity; and demonstrate experimentally a measurement of Bell’s inequality and show its usefulness as a quantitative tool in classical optical coherence theory.

DOI: 10.1364/cqo.2013.m6.08

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