Cross time-bin photonic entanglement for quantum key distribution

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Martin, A ^a   Kaiser, F ^a   Vernier, A ^a   Beveratos, A ^b   Scarani, V ^c,d   Tanzilli, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DARK COUNTS; PHASE STABILIZATION; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TIME-BIN STATE; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

BINS;

EID: 84873466144     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.020301     Document Type: Article

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