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Optics Communications

Switchable detector array scheme to reduce the effect of single-photon detector’s deadtime in a multi-bit/photon quantum link

Cong Liu, Yongxiong Ren, Jiapeng Zhao, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Guodong Xie, Kai Pang, Haoqian Song, Zhe Zhao, Zhe Wang, Long Li, Joshua C. Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall, Todd A. Brun, Moshe Tur, Robert W. Boyd, Alan Eli Willner

Published Feb 25, 2019• 1 citation
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10.1016/j.optcom.2019.01.081

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