Isaac Scientific Publishing

Theoretical Physics

A Proposal for Optical Experiments on Nonlocality with a Linear Anisotropic Crystal

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DOI: 10.22606/tp.2016.11004

Author(s)

  • V.K.Ignatovich*
    Joint institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
  • F.V.Ignatovich
    Lumetrics inc, Rochester, N.Y., USA

Abstract

Propagation of two beams through a birefringent calcite crystal is considered. Exper- iments are proposed the same as the ones performed with down conversion photons in nonlinear crystals.

Keywords

Optics, birefringence, interference, coincidence, entanglement.

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