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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 1, 51(2020)

Experimental demonstration of full-field quantum optical coherence tomography

Zeferino Ibarra-Borja¹, Carlos Sevilla-Gutiérrez¹, Roberto Ramírez-Alarcón^1、*, Hector Cruz-Ramírez², and Alfred B. U’Ren²

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¹Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A.C., Loma del Bosque 115, Colonia Lomas del Campestre, 37150 León, Guanajuato, Mexico

²Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 DF, Mexico

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Zeferino Ibarra-Borja, Carlos Sevilla-Gutiérrez, Roberto Ramírez-Alarcón, Hector Cruz-Ramírez, Alfred B. U’Ren, "Experimental demonstration of full-field quantum optical coherence tomography," Photonics Res. 8, 51 (2020)

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Paper Information

Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Aug. 14, 2019

Accepted: Oct. 5, 2019

Published Online: Dec. 18, 2019

The Author Email: Roberto Ramírez-Alarcón (roberto.ramirez@cio.mx)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.8.000051

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