Large pulse attack as a method of conventional optical eavesdropping in quantum cryptography

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 13 SPEC., 2001, Pages 2023-2038

  Vakhitov, Artem ^a   Makarov, Vadim ^b   Hjelme, Dag R ^b  

^a PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; HIGH POWER LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; REFLECTOMETERS; SECURITY OF DATA;

CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL EAVESDROPPING; HIGH POWER LIGHT PULSES; LARGE PULSE ATTACK; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0035841908     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340110074691     Document Type: Article

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