Physical and architectural considerations in quantum repeaters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7236, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Razavi, M ^a   Thompson, K ^a   Farmanbar, H ^a   Piani, M ^a   Lutkenhaus N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bell state measurement; Coherence time; De phasing; Entanglement distribution; Entanglement measure; Quantum communication; Quantum key distribution; Quantum memory; Quantum repeater

Indexed keywords

BELL-STATE MEASUREMENT; COHERENCE TIME; DE-PHASING; ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION; ENTANGLEMENT MEASURE; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM MEMORY; QUANTUM REPEATER;

BELLS; COMMUNICATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 62549118271     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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