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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

The Communications Frontier Between Classical and Quantum Physics

A. G. Fox

Published Oct 1, 1959• 0 citations
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Abstract

Man's sophisticated art of communications has been built upon his ability to generate and detect coherent electromagnetic waves. This art has been pushed to higher and ever higher frequencies, until now important experimental work is being carried on in the neighborhood of one millimeter wavelength.
DOI
10.1109/tmtt.1959.1125410

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