High speed quantum key distribution system

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E93-A, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 889-896

  Tajima, Akio ^a   Tanaka, Akihiro ^a   Takahashi, Seigo ^a   Yoshino, Ken Ichiro ^a   Nambu, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Planar lightwave circuit; Quantum key distribution; Single photon detector; WDM

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DARK-COUNT PROBABILITY; KEY GENERATION RATE; MULTI-WAVELENGTHS; PLANAR LIGHT-WAVE CIRCUITS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; UNCONDITIONALLY SECURE;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951950925     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.889     Document Type: Article

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