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Nature Reviews Physics

The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies

E. Pelucchi, Giorgos Fagas, Igor Aharonovich, Dirk Englund, Eden V. Figueroa, Qihuang Gong, Hannes Hübel, Jin Liu, Chao‐Yang Lu, Nobuyuki Matsuda, Jian-Wei Pan, Florian Schreck, Fabio Sciarrino, Christine Silberhorn, Jianwei Wang, Klaus D. Jöns

Published Dec 23, 2021• 537 citations
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10.1038/s42254-021-00398-z

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