Feasibility of 300 km quantum key distribution with entangled states

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scheidl, Thomas ^a   Ursin, Rupert ^a   Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Ramelow, Sven ^a   Ma, Xiao Song ^a   Herbst, Thomas ^b   Prevedel, Robert ^b   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Kofier, Johannes ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^a   Zollinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANARY ISLANDS; CHANNEL LOSS; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; ENTANGLED STATE; FREE SPACE; OPERATIONAL RANGE; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; TENERIFE;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 69249151750     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/8/085002     Document Type: Article

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