The successful integration of a single-photon source with a slow-light medium creates important opportunities for photon synchronization and marks a step towards the development of distributed networks for quantum information processing.
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Hau, L. Slowing single photons. Nature Photon 5, 197–198 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.43
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