An extremely low-noise heralded single-photon source: A breakthrough for quantum technologies
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for quantum technologies G. Brida, I. P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, F. Piacentini, P. Traina, A. Della Frera, A. Tosi, A. Bahgat Shehata, C. Scarcella, A. Gulinatti, M. Ghioni, S. V. Polyakov, A. Migdall, and A. Giudice Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica-I.N.RI.M., Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr, Stop 8410, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA Micro Photon Devices Srl, Via Stradivari 4, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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