• DocumentCode
    415500
  • Title

    Passive autocompensating quantum cryptography

  • Author

    Walton, Z.D. ; Abouraddy, A.F. ; Sergienko, Alexander V. ; Saleh, B.E.A. ; Teich

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    403
  • Abstract
    A new quantum cryptography scheme is presented that combines passive detection and autocompensation, two desirable features that have hitherto only been demonstrated in separate implementations. A practical implementation based on a well-known down-conversion source is proposed.
  • Keywords
    compensation; quantum cryptography; quantum optics; autocompensation; down-conversion source; passive detection; quantum cryptography; Cryptography; Data mining; Distributed computing; Entropy; Error correction; Information theory; Mutual information; Propagation losses; Protocols; Quantum computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7733-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314261
  • Filename
    1314261