Asymmetric architecture for heralded single-photon sources
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Luca Mazzarella,1,* Francesco Ticozzi,1,2 Alexander V. Sergienko,3 Giuseppe Vallone,1 and Paolo Villoresi1 1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Padova, via Gradenigo 6/B, I-35131 Padova, Italy 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, 8 Saint Mary’s St., Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA (Received 15 May 2013; published 27 August 2013)
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