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Active Multiplexing of Spectrally Engineered Heralded Single Photons in an Integrated Fibre Architecture

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Historically single photons and sources of single photons have been instrumental in helping to explore, understand and develop new theories and devices across a range of topics in quantum mechanics and quantum information science.

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