A coherently excited Franson-type nonlocal correlation

Abstract: Entanglement is the basic building block of quantum technologies whose property is in the unique quantum feature of nonlocal realism. However, such a nonlocal quantum property is known as just a weird phenomenon that cannot be obtained by any classical means. Recently, the mysterious quantum phenomena have been coherently interpreted using entangled photon pairs, where the quantum mystery has been found in the manipulated product-basis superposition of paired photons. Here, a coherence version of the Franson-type nonlocal correlation is presented by all means of classical physics. The resulting coherence solutions of the nonlocal correlation satisfy the same joint-phase relation of local parameters as in the quantum version. For the nonlocal correlation fringe, coherent manipulations of attenuated laser light are conducted by synchronized acousto-optic modulators to generate random but phase-matched photon pairs.