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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Engineered atom-light interactions in 1D photonic crystals

Michael J. Martin, Chen-Lung Hung, Su‐Peng Yu, Akihisa Goban, Juan A. Muniz, Jonathan D. Hood, Richard A. Norte, Andrew McClung, Seán M. Meenehan, Justin D. Cohen, Jae Hoon Lee, Lucas Peng, Oskar J. Painter, Harry J. Kimble

Published Jun 5, 2014• 0 citations
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