Distribution of time-bin entangled qubits over 50 km of optical fiber

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Marcikic, I ^a   De Riedmatten, H ^a   Tittel, W ^a   Zbinden, H ^a   Legre M ^a   Gisin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SECURITY OF DATA;

QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); QUANTUM RELAYS; QUANTUM REPEATERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 19744382431     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180502     Document Type: Article

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