High-fidelity transmission of polarization encoded qubits from an entangled source over 100 km of fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7853-7862

  Hübel, Hannes ^a   Vanner, Michael R ^a   Lederer, Thomas ^a   Blauensteiner, Bibiane ^a   Lorünser, Thomas ^b   Poppe, Andreas ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTON DETECTORS; QUANTUM CORRELATIONS; QUBITS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34250205616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007853     Document Type: Article

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