Multi-photon tolerant secure quantum communication - From theory to practice

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2111-2116

  Chen, Yuhua ^a   Kak, Subhash ^b   Verma, Pramode K ^c   Macdonald, Gregory ^c   Rifai, Mayssaa El ^c   Punekar, Nikhil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

BB84; free space; LabView; polarization; Quantum cryptography; rotation transformation; three stage protocol

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

BB84; FREE SPACES; LABVIEW; MARKET APPLICATIONS; PRACTICAL ISSUES; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SYSTEM; ROTATION TRANSFORMATION; SINGLE PHOTONS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84891363941     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6654838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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