Extensible router for a quantum key distribution network

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3957-3962

  Zhang, Tao ^a   Mo, Xiao Fan ^a   Han, Zheng Fu ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Quantum key distribution network; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; KEY EXCHANGE; STAR TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 43049091472     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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