Demonstration of an active quantum key distribution network

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6305, Issue , 2006, Pages

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

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

Author keywords

Optical switches; Quantum communications network; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

MULTI NODE NETWORKS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD) SYSTEM; QUANTUM KEYS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ENCODING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33750542339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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