Distribution of time-energy entanglement over 100 km fiber using superconducting single-photon detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5776-5781

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Takesue, Hiroki ^b   Nam, Sae Woo ^c   Langrock, Carsten ^a   Xie, Xiuping ^a   Baek, Burm ^c   Fejer, M M ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

DISPERSION HIFTED FIBERS; PHOTON DETECTORS; PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 42149095992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005776     Document Type: Article

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