Quantum key distribution over an installed multimode optical fiber local area network

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9961-9969

  Namekata, Naoto ^a   Mori, Shigehiko ^a   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMODE FIBERS;

QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE-MODE-LIKE BEHAVIOR;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 28944454128     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009961     Document Type: Article

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