"Plug and play" systems for quantum cryptography

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 793-795

  Muller, A ^a   Herzog, T ^a   Huttner, B ^a   Tittel, W ^a   Zbinden, H ^a   Gisin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FARADAY MIRRORS; PLUG AND PLAY SYSTEMS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0031076691     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.118224     Document Type: Article

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