10-GHz clock differential phase shift quantum key distribution experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9522-9530

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a,b   Diamanti, Eleni ^c   Langrock, Carsten ^c   Fejer, M M ^c   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^c  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CLOCKS; COHERENT LIGHT; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEGUIDES;

CLOCK FREQUENCY; COHERENT PULSES; LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33749397789     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009522     Document Type: Article

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