High-speed photon counting techniques for broadband quantum key distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rogers, D ^a   Bienfang, J C ^a   Mink, A ^a   Hershman, B J ^a   Nakassis, A ^a   Ma, L ^a   Tang, X ^a   Su, D H ^a   Clark, Charles W ^a   Williams, Carl J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Quantum key distribution; Single photon detection

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; PHOTODIODES; QUANTUM THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (SPAD); SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33846250385     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.686188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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