Field test of a practical secure communication network with decoy-state quantum cryptography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6540-6549

  Chen, Teng Yun ^a   Liang, Hao ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Cai, Wen Qi ^a   Ju, Lei ^a   Liu, Wei Yue ^b   Jianwang, ^a   Yin, Hao ^a   Chen, Kai ^a   Chen, Zeng Bing ^a   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

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

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ADJACENT NODES; APPLICATION PROTOCOLS; APPLICATION SCENARIO; COMMUNICATION APPLICATION; COMMUNICATION NODES; REAL-TIME VOICE; SECURE NETWORKS; TELECOM OPTICAL FIBERS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 65149106045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006540     Document Type: Article

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