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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 8, 1449(2023)

Round-trip multi-band quantum access network Spotlight on Optics

Yuehan Xu¹, Tao Wang^1,2,3,4、*, Huanxi Zhao¹, Peng Huang^1,2,3, and Guihua Zeng^1,2,3,5、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Center of Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

³Hefei National Laboratory, CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei 230026, China

⁴e-mail: tonystar@sjtu.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: ghzeng@sjtu.edu.cn

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Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Apr. 4, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 20, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 2, 2023

The Author Email: Tao Wang (tonystar@sjtu.edu.cn), Guihua Zeng (ghzeng@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.492448

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