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Pump-Intensity Scaling of Two-Photon Absorption and Photon Statistics of Entangled-Photon Fields
- Award ID(s):
- 2246379
- PAR ID:
- 10614369
- Publisher / Repository:
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 18
- ISSN:
- 1948-7185
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 4547 to 4554
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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