Time coding protocols for quantum key distribution

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Debuisschert, Thierry ^a   Boucher, William ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL ENCODING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DEPHASING; PHOTOCOUNTERS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); TIME CODING PROTOCOLS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19744381322     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.042306     Document Type: Review

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