• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 4, 622 (2020)
Fenghua Qi1、†, Zhiyuan Wang1、†, Weiwang Xu1, Xue-Wen Chen1、4、*, and Zhi-Yuan Li2、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2College of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
  • 3e-mail: phzyli@scut.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: xuewen_chen@hust.edu.cn
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    Fenghua Qi, Zhiyuan Wang, Weiwang Xu, Xue-Wen Chen, Zhi-Yuan Li. Towards simultaneous observation of path and interference of a single photon in a modified Mach–Zehnder interferometer[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(4): 622 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Fenghua Qi, Zhiyuan Wang, Weiwang Xu, Xue-Wen Chen, Zhi-Yuan Li. Towards simultaneous observation of path and interference of a single photon in a modified Mach–Zehnder interferometer[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(4): 622
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