Quantum entanglement distribution with 810 nm photons through active telecommunication fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20597-20603

  Holloway, Catherine ^a   Meyer Scott, Evan ^a   Erven, Chris ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; FIBERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

1550 NM; CENTRAL SERVICE PROVIDER; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION; ETHERNET SIGNALS; OPTICAL POWER; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM DATA; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; TELECOM; TELECOM FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION FIBERS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053970964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020597     Document Type: Article

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