Experimental demonstration of free-space decoy-state quantum key distribution over 144 km

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Schmitt Manderbach, Tobias ^a   Weier, Henning ^b   Fürst, Martin ^b   Ursin, Rupert ^c   Tiefenbacher, Felix ^c,d   Scheidl, Thomas ^c,d   Perdigues, Josep ^e   Sodnik, Zoran ^e   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^f   Rarity, John G ^g   Zeilinger, Anton ^c,d   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; SPACECRAFT; TELESCOPES; TRACKING (POSITION); TRANSMITTERS;

BIDIRECTIONAL ACTIVE TELESCOPE TRACKING; DECOY STATE ANALYSIS; LINK TRANSMISSION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33846383808     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.010504     Document Type: Article

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