Superlinear threshold detectors in quantum cryptography

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lydersen, Lars ^a,b   Jain, Nitin ^c,d   Wittmann, Christoffer ^c,d   Marøy, Øystein ^a,b   Skaar, Johannes ^a,b   Marquardt, Christoph ^c,d   Makarov, Vadim ^a,b   Leuchs, Gerd ^c,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR CONTROL; OPTICAL POWER METERS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; SECRET KEY; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERLINEAR; SUPERLINEARITY; THRESHOLD DETECTORS; TRIGGER PULSE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052758414     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.032320     Document Type: Article

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