Long distance free space quantum cryptography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4917, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-31

  Kurtsiefer, C ^a   Zarda, P ^a,b   Halder, M ^a   Gorman, P M ^c   Tapster, P R ^c   Rarity, J G ^c   Weinfurter, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free space optics; Quantum cryptography; Quantum information

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMBER THEORY; OPTICAL LINKS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FREE SPACE OPTICS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; RANDOM BINARY NUMBER;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0036442647     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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