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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 3, 235 (2020)

Hybrid waveguide scheme for silicon-based quantum photonic circuits with quantum light sources | Spotlight on Optics

Lingjie Yu¹, Chenzhi Yuan^1、2, Renduo Qi¹, Yidong Huang^1、3、4, and Wei Zhang^{1、3、4、*}

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¹Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chips, Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

³Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, China

⁴Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

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