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物理学前沿：英文版

Generation and Detection of Infrared Single Photons and their Applications

Heping Zeng, Guang Wu, E Wu, Haifeng Pan, Chunyuan Zhou, François Treussart, Jean-François Roch

Published Jan 1, 2006• 10 citations
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10.1007/s11467-005-0019-z

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