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Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 11, 2614(2022)

Mid-infrared single-photon upconversion spectroscopy based on temporal-spectral quantum correlation Editors' Pick

Yujie Cai¹, Yu Chen^1,2,4、*, Xiaoning Xin¹, Kun Huang¹, and E Wu^1,2,3,5、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401120, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Jun. 14, 2022

Accepted: Sep. 21, 2022

Published Online: Oct. 28, 2022

The Author Email: Yu Chen (ychen@lps.ecnu.edu.cn), E Wu (ewu@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.467695

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