Unconditionally secure quantum key distribution over 50 km of standard telecom fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 1603-1605

  Gobby, C ^a,b   Yuan, Z L ^a   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL THEORY;

MULTI-PHOTON PULSES; PHOTON NUMBER SPLITTING (PNS); QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; TELECOM FIBERS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144327171     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20045038     Document Type: Article

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