A 24 km fiber-based discretely signaled continuous variable quantum key distribution system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24244-24249

  Xuan, Quyen Dinh ^a   Zhang, Zheshen ^a,b   Voss, Paul L ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CONTINUOUS WAVE; FREQUENCY TRANSLATION; GUIDED ACOUSTIC WAVES; KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; SUPPRESSION OF NOISE;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77949502417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024244     Document Type: Article

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