Quantum key distribution with blind polarization bases

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Kye, Won Ho ^a   Kim, Chil Min ^a   Kim, M S ^b   Park, Young Jai ^c  

^a PaiChai University   (South Korea)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND POLARIZATION; COHERENT-STATE PULSE; POLARIZATION ANGLES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LASER PULSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27144551656     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.040501     Document Type: Article

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