Two-way quantum communication in a single optical fiber with active polarization compensation

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

Volumn 36 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 125-131

  Xavier, G B ^a   Vilela De Faria, G ^a   Ferreira Da Silva, T ^a,b   Temporao G P ^a   Von Der Weid, J P ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Optical networks; Polarization; Quantum communications

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; DATA STREAM; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; ENCODED QUBITS; ERROR RATE; POLARIZATION CONTROL; QUANTUM SIGNALS; REFERENCE CHANNELS; SINGLE OPTICAL FIBERS; TELECOM;

COMMUNICATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84885892994     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11731-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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