Experiments on long wavelength (1550nm) "plug and play" quantum cryptography systems

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 383-387

  Bourennane, M ^a   Gibson, F ^a,b   Karlsson, A ^a   Hening, A ^a,c   Jonsson, P ^a   Tsegaye, T ^a   Ljunggren, D ^a   Sundberg, E ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Telia Research AB   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DATA TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; SINGLE-PHOTON PULSES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0000418120     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000383     Document Type: Article

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