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Nature Photonics

Air-to-ground quantum communication

Sebastian Nauerth, Florian Moll, Markus Rau, Christian Fuchs, Joachim Horwath, Stefan Frick, Harald Weinfurter

Published Mar 29, 2013• 333 citations
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10.1038/nphoton.2013.46

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