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Experimental interference of independent photons

Rainer Kaltenbaek, Bibiane Blauensteiner, Marek Zukowski, Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton Zeilinger

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0603048

Abstract

Interference of photons emerging from independent sources is essential for modern quantum information processing schemes, above all quantum repeaters and linear-optics quantum computers. We report an observation of non-classical interference of two single photons originating from two independent, separated sources, which were actively synchronized with an r.m.s. timing jitter of 260 fs. The resulting (two-photon) interference visibility was 83(+/-)4 %.

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