Stability of high bit rate quantum key distribution on installed fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16339-16347

  Dynes, J F ^a   Choi, I ^a   Sharpe, A W ^a   Dixon, A R ^a   Yuan, Z L ^a   Fujiwara, M ^b   Sasaki, M ^b   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

BIT RATES; HIGH BIT RATES; INSTALLED FIBERS; QUANTUM KEY;

FIBERS;

EID: 84864134351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016339     Document Type: Article

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