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Optics Communications

Higher-order stochastic quasi-phase-matching in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Jiŕí Svozilík, Jan Peřina

Published Jun 6, 2013• 4 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2013.05.044

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