Entangled free-space quantum key distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6780, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Weihs, Gregor ^a   Erven, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Photons; Quantum cryptography; Quantum information; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DATA TRANSFER; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTONS; SECURITY OF DATA; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 42549124747     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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