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Waveguide source of correlated photon pairs for chip-scale quantum information processing | NIST

Jun Chen, Aaron J. Pearlman, Alexander E. Ling, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

Published Aug 26, 2009• 0 citations
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