Countermeasure against tailored bright illumination attack for DPS-QKD

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2667-2673

  Honjo, Toshimori ^a   Fujiwara, Mikio ^b   Shimizu, Kaoru ^c   Tamaki, Kiyoshi ^c   Miki, Shigehito ^b   Yamashita, Taro ^b   Terai, Hirotaka ^b   Wang, Zhen ^b   Sasaki, Masahide ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; NANOWIRES;

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; ILLUMINATION LIGHT; OUTPUT PORTS; PULSE STREAM; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

ARTICLE; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

LIGHTING; SECURITY MEASURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84874045095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002667     Document Type: Article

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