Experimental study of high speed polarization-coding quantum key distribution with sifted-key rates over Mbit/s

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2062-2070

  Tang, Xiao ^a   Ma, Lijun ^a   Mink, Alan ^a   Nakassis, Anastase ^a   Xu, Hai ^a   Hershman, Barry ^a   Bienfang, Joshua C ^a   Su, David ^a   Boisvert, Ronald F ^a   Clark, Charles W ^a   Williams, Carl J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTODIODES; POLARIZATION; SILICON;

AVALANCHE PHOTO-DIODE (APD); DATA-DEPENDENT TIMING JITTER; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMISSION LASERS (VCSELS);

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645084007     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002062     Document Type: Article

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