Ultra fast quantum key distribution over a 97 km installed telecom fiber with wavelength division multiplexing clock synchronization

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11354-11360

  Tanaka, Akihiro ^a   Fujiwara, Mikio ^b   Nam, Sae Woo ^c   Nambu, Yoshihiro ^a   Takahashi, Seigo ^a   Maeda, Wakako ^a   Yoshino, Ken Ichiro ^a   Miki, Shigehito ^b   Baek, Burm ^c   Wang, Zhen ^b   Tajima, Akio ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^b   Tomita, Akihisa ^a,d  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CLOCKS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; INSTALLED FIBERS; KEY GENERATION; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE; SIFTED KEY RATE; TELECOM FIBERS; TRANSMISSION DATA;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 47849106573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011354     Document Type: Article

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