Narrowband photonic quantum entanglement with counterpropagating domain engineering

Yi-Chen Liu; Dong-Jie Guo; Ran Yang; Chang-Wei Sun; Jia-Chen Duan; Yan-Xiao Gong; Zhenda Xie; Shi-Ning Zhu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.413075

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