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Quantum optics route to market

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Research in quantum optics has already led to commercial technologies, but the gap between the lab and market products is still large. Looking from the industrial side, one can see ways of bridging this gap.

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  1. Jürgen Stuhler is the Senior Director of Quantum Technologies at TOPTICA Photonics, Lochhamer Schlag 19, D-82166 Gräfelfing, Germany,

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