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IntechOpen eBooks

Single Photon Manipulation

Keyu Xia

Published Sep 2, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

This short book aims to present basic information about single photons in a quick read but with not many details. For this purpose, it only introduces the basic concept of single photons, the most important method of generating single photons in experiments, and a specific emerging field.
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10.5772/intechopen.83207

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