Long-distance entanglement-based quantum key distribution over optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 19118-19126

  Honjo, T ^a,h   Nam, S W ^b   Takesue, H ^a,h   Zhang, Q ^c,g   Kamada, H ^a   Nishida, Y ^d   OTadanaga, ^d   Asobe, M ^d   Baek, B ^b   Hadfield, R ^b   Miki, S ^e   Fujiwara, M ^e   Sasaki, M ^e   Wang, Z ^e   Inoue, K ^a,f,h   Yamamoto, Y ^c,g  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

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

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^h JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; LOW LOSS FILTER; PERIODICALLY POLED; PLANAR LIGHT-WAVE CIRCUITS; QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; STABLE OPERATION; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 56249092791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019118     Document Type: Article

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