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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Development and Characterization of Cavity-Enhanced Bright Parametric Down-Conversion Single-Photon Source Tailored To Match Frequency and Bandwidth of InAs Quantum Dots for Quantum Information Protocols

Uttam Paudel, Jia Jun Wong, A. P. Burgers, M. E. Goggin, Paul G. Kwiat, Duncan Steel

Published Mar 17, 2017• 0 citations
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