QKD in standard optical telecommunications networks

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 36 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 142-149

  Lancho, D ^a   Martinez, J ^a   Elkouss, D ^a   Soto, M ^b   Martin, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Passive optical networks; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; AVERAGE POWER; DEDICATED PHYSICAL CHANNELS; FULL INTEGRATION; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; NOISE SOURCE; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; REAL NETWORKS; SINGLE PHOTON SIGNALS; WEAK SIGNALS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROFITABILITY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84872382489     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11731-2_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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