Air-to-ground quantum communication

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 382-386

  Nauerth, Sebastian ^a   Moll, Florian ^b   Rau, Markus ^a   Fuchs, Christian ^b   Horwath, Joachim ^b   Frick, Stefan ^a   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; FINANCIAL SECTORS; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; LOW EARTH ORBITS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM REPEATERS; SECURE COMMUNICATIONS; SECURE KEY DISTRIBUTION;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS;

EID: 84877575426     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.46     Document Type: Article

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