Parameter estimation and control in a QKD link

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5436, Issue , 2004, Pages 21-27

  Pikalo, Oleksiy ^a   Schlafer, John ^a   Colvin, Alex ^a   Elliott, Brig B ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; LQR; Path length control; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETERS; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PATH-LENGTH CONTROL; PHASE ERROR CORRECTION; QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE (QBER); QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD);

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 10444251668     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.541811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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