Experimental demonstration of an active quantum key distribution network with over Gbps clock synchronization

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1019-1021

  Ma, Lijun ^a   Mink, Alan ^a   Xu, Hai ^a   Slattery, Oliver ^a   Tang, Xiao ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data security; Optical fiber communication; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution; Quantum network

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA; WAVELENGTH;

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM NETWORK; THREE-NODE NETWORK;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 38149071490     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.071477     Document Type: Article

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