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Frontiers in Optics

Advances in Silicon Quantum Photonics

Damien Bonneau, Joshua W. Silverstone, Jianwei Wang, Philip Sibson, Raffaele Santagati, Chris Erven, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson

Published Jan 1, 2016• 2 citations
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Abstract

Silicon quantum photonics has emerged as a promising approach to realising complex and compact quantum circuits for applications in communication and computation. Highlights include chip-to-chip quantum communications, programmable quantum circuits and chip-based quantum simulations.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2016.lw5i.3

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