Efficient entanglement distribution over 200 kilometers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11440-11449

  Dynes, J F ^a   Takesue, H ^b   Yuan, Z L ^a   Sharpe, A W ^a   Harada, K ^b   Honjo, T ^b   Kamada, H ^b   Tadanaga, O ^c   Nishida, Y ^c   Asobe, M ^c   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

(060.5565) Quantum communications; (270.5565) Quantum communications; (270.5568) Quantum cryptography; (270.5585) Quantum Information and processing

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION; LOW COSTS; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; QUANTUM INFORMATION; REAL-WORLD; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCIES;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67650541713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011440     Document Type: Article

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