Current status of the DARPA quantum network

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5815, Issue , 2005, Pages 138-149

  Elliott, Chip ^a   Colvin, Alexander ^a   Pearson, David ^a   Pikalo, Oleksiy ^a   Schlafer, John ^a   Yeh, Henry ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

BB84; Cascade; Entanglement; QKD; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

QKD; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY NETWORKS; QUANTUM NETWORKS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 27644552955     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.606489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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