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Vol. 13, Issue 4, 837 (2025)

Multi-channel Hong–Ou–Mandle interference between independent comb-based weak coherent pulses

Long Huang^1,2,†, Linhan Tang^1,2,†, Yang Wang^1,2, Minhui Cheng^1,2..., B. E. Little¹, Sai T. Chu³, Wei Zhao^1,2, Weiqiang Wang^4,5 and Wenfu Zhang^1,2,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

⁴School of Electronic Information and Artificial Intelligence, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710021, China

⁵e-mail: wangwqopt@163.com

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Long Huang, Linhan Tang, Yang Wang, Minhui Cheng, B. E. Little, Sai T. Chu, Wei Zhao, Weiqiang Wang, Wenfu Zhang, "Multi-channel Hong–Ou–Mandle interference between independent comb-based weak coherent pulses," Photonics Res. 13, 837 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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