Metropolitan all-pass and inter-city quantum communication network

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27217-27225

  Chen, Teng Yun ^a,b   Wang, Jian ^a,b   Liang, Hao ^a   Liu, Wei Yue ^b,c   Liu, Yang ^a,b   Jiang, Xiao ^a,b   Wang, Yuan ^a   Wan, Xu ^a   Cai, Wen Qi ^a   Ju, Lei ^a,b   Chen, Luo Kan ^a,b   Wang, Liu Jun ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Chen, Kai ^a   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a   Chen, Zeng Bing ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Anhui Quantum Communication Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^c NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; DECOY STATE; IN-FIELD; NETWORK-BASED; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OUTPUT PORTS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM NETWORK; REAL-TIME VOICE;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ARTICLE; CITY; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CITIES; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 78650549982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027217     Document Type: Article

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