Secure key generation using an ultra-long fiber laser: Transient analysis and experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16680-16690

  Zadok, Avi ^a   Scheuer, Jacob ^b   Sendowski, Jacob ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER MIRRORS; MIRRORS; NETWORK SECURITY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ENCRYPTION PROTOCOLS; EXTENDED ANALYSIS; KEY DISTRIBUTION; LASER OSCILLATIONS; OPTICAL DOMAINS; SIMPLE ANALYSIS; STANDARD FIBERS; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 54249146882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016680     Document Type: Article

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