Preventing eavesdropping with bright reference pulses for a practical quantum key distribution

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Wu, Guang ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Li, Yao ^a   Xu, Lilin ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRIGHT REFERENCE PULSES; EAVESDROPPING STRATEGY; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SPLITTING RATIO;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846376417     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062323     Document Type: Article

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