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Optics Communications

Unified view of the second-order and the fourth-order interferences in a single interferometer

Jing Qiu, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Guo‐Yong Xiang, Shensheng Han, You-Zhen Gui

Published Sep 27, 2014• 2 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2014.09.037

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