Passive sources for the Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol with practical signals

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Curty, Marcos ^a   Ma, Xiongfeng ^b   Lo, Hoi Kwong ^c   Lütkenhaus, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STATE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HIGH TRANSMISSION RATE; LINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PASSIVE DEVICES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS; SIDE CHANNEL ATTACK; SIGNAL STATE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STATE PREPARATION;

COHERENT LIGHT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649592022     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.052325     Document Type: Article

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