Quantum interference with independent single-photon sources over 300 km fiber

Xiang You; Ming-Yang Zheng; Si Chen; Run-Ze Liu; Jian Qin; Mo-Chi Xu; Zheng-Xuan Ge; Tung-Hsun Chung; Yu-Kun Qiao; Yang-Fan Jiang; Han-Sen Zhong; Ming-Cheng Chen; Hui Wang; Yu-Ming He; Xiu-Ping Xie; Hao Li; Li-Xing You; Christian Schneider; Juan Yin; Teng-Yun Chen; Mohamed Benyoucef; Yong-Heng Huo; Sven Höfling; Qiang Zhang; Chao-Yang Lu; Jian-Wei Pan

doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.6.066003

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