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Optics Communications

Selecting the pre-detection characteristics for fiber coupling of parametric down-converted biphoton modes

Ali Anwar, P. Chithrabhanu, Salla Gangi Reddy, Nijil Lal, Ravindra Pratap Singh

Published Aug 7, 2016• 2 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2016.07.028

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