Single-photon interference experiment over 100 km for quantum cryptography system using balanced gated-mode photon detector

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1199-1201

  Kosaka, H ^a,b   Tomita, A ^c   Nambu, Y ^a   Kimura, T ^d   Nakamura, K ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042430134     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030791     Document Type: Article

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