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Narrowband Single Photons for Light-Matter Interfaces

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The history of mankind is a story of communication. Over centuries, the urge of human beings to exchange thoughts with each other over long distances has driven a variety of sociological and technological innovations: starting in ancient Persia and Egypt with letters written on the bark of trees or papyrus and transported by couriers, enriching cultural exchange between distant places, over the invention of the printing press for fast duplication of e.g. newspapers, or later the telephone for personal communication, up to today, where the whole world is just a switch away, either on radio, television, a computer or just a small mobile phone in your pocket.

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Rambach, M. (2018). Introduction. In: Narrowband Single Photons for Light-Matter Interfaces. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97154-4_1

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