Distributing entanglement and single photons through an intra-city, free-space quantum channel

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 202-209

  Resch, K J ^a   Lindenthal, M ^a   Blauensteiner, B ^a   Bohm H R ^a   Fedrizzi, A ^a   Kurtsiefer, C ^b,c   Poppe, A ^a   Schmitt Manderbach, T ^b   Taraba, M ^a   Ursin, R ^a   Walther, P ^a   Weier, H ^b   Weinfurter, H ^b   Zeilinger, A ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

GROUND STATIONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; QUANTUM INFORMATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 13544268610     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000202     Document Type: Article

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