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Vol. 8, Issue 6, 1023 (2020)

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Pablo Yepiz-Graciano¹, Alí Michel Angulo Martínez¹, Dorilian Lopez-Mago^2、3、*, Hector Cruz-Ramirez¹, and Alfred B. U’Ren^1、4、*

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¹Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70-543, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico

²Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey, N.L. 64849, Mexico

³e-mail: dlopezmago@tec.mx

⁴e-mail: alfred.uren@correo.nucleares.unam.mx

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Pablo Yepiz-Graciano, Alí Michel Angulo Martínez, Dorilian Lopez-Mago, Hector Cruz-Ramirez, Alfred B. U’Ren. Spectrally resolved Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometry for quantum-optical coherence tomography[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(6): 1023 Copy Citation Text

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