Generalized beam-splitting attack in quantum cryptography with dim coherent states

Optics Communications

Volumn 169, Issue 1-6, 1999, Pages 103-108

  Dušek, Miloslav ^a   Haderka, Ondřej ^a,b   Hendrych, Martin ^a,b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacky University and Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Beam splitting attack; Quantum cryptography

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BEAM SPLITTING ATTACK;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0038587551     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00419-8     Document Type: Article

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