Silica-on-silicon waveguide quantum circuits

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5876, 2008, Pages 646-649

  Politi, Alberto ^a   Cryan, Martin J ^a   Rarity, John G ^a   Yu, Siyuan ^a   O'Brien, Jeremy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICA; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 43749121775     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155441     Document Type: Article

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