Experimental synchronization of independent entangled photon sources

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Mar 24;96(11):110501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.110501. Epub 2006 Mar 20.

Abstract

We report the generation of independent entangled photon pairs from two synchronized but mutually incoherent laser sources. The quality of synchronization is confirmed by observing a violation of Bell's inequality with 3.2 standard deviations in an entanglement swapping experiment. The techniques developed in our experiment are not only important for realistic linear optical quantum-information processing, but also enable new tests of local realism.