Quantum key distribution in a high-dimensional state space: Exploiting the transverse degree of freedom of the photon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7948, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Boyd, Robert W ^a,b   Jha, Anand ^a   Malik, Mehul ^a   O'Sullivan, Colin ^a   Rodenburg, Brandon ^a   Gauthier, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Orbital angular momentum; Quantum imaging; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

CURRENT STATUS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; FREE SPACE; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUANTUM IMAGING; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955092478     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.873491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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