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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 341(2019)

Improved generation of correlated photon pairs from monolayer WS₂ based on bound states in the continuum

Tiecheng Wang, Zhixin Li, and Xiangdong Zhang^*

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Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics & Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

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Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Oct. 24, 2018

Accepted: Jan. 22, 2019

Published Online: Mar. 7, 2019

The Author Email: Xiangdong Zhang (zhangxd@bit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000341

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