Measuring intensity correlations with a two-element superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
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Eric A. Dauler, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, and Karl K. Berggren Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420, USA National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA Received 12 May 2008; published 24 November 2008
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