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European Conference on Optical Communication

Advances in photonic quantum information science

John Rarity

Published Sep 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

This talk will review recent advances in pair photon sources, multiphoton interference and deterministic entanglement generation commenting on prospects for scalable quantum computation.
DOI
10.1109/ecoc.2014.6964251

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