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arXiv:1510.04042 · Nature Photonics

Extraction of a single photon from an optical pulse

Serge Rosenblum, Orel Bechler, Itay Shomroni, Yulia Lovsky, Gabriel Guendelman, Barak Dayan

Published Nov 18, 2015• 103 citations
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10.1038/nphoton.2015.227

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