Single Photon Manipulation最新文献

Optical Chirality and Single-Photon Isolation 光手性和单光子隔离

Single Photon Manipulation Pub Date : 2019-12-03 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90354

Lei Tang, K. Xia

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Generation and Manipulation of Nonclassical Photon Sources in Nonlinear Processes 非线性过程中非经典光子源的产生和操作

Single Photon Manipulation Pub Date : 2019-11-21 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90268

Zhi-yuan Zhou, B. Shi

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Quantized Field of Single Photons 单光子量子化场

Single Photon Manipulation Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88378

C. Meis

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Do We Manipulate Photons or Diffractive EM Waves to Generate Structured Light? 我们是否操纵光子或衍射电磁波来产生结构光?

Single Photon Manipulation Pub Date : 2019-09-03 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88849

C. Roychoudhuri

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