Enhanced autocompensating quantum cryptography system

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1640-1648

  Bethune, Donald S ^a   Navarro, Martha ^b   Risk, William P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

AUTOCOMPENSATING QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SYSTEM;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037139035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001640     Document Type: Article

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