Experimental investigation of the performance limits for first telecommunications-window quantum cryptography systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1048-1050

  Townsend, Paul D ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptography; Data security; Optical fiber communications; Optics; Quantum cryptography; Quantum processing

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTODIODES; QUANTUM THEORY; SECURITY OF DATA;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SYSTEMS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032121772     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681313     Document Type: Article

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