Title :
360km field transmission of 10 Gbit/s stream cipher by quantum noise for optical network
Author :
Doi, Yoshifumi ; Akutsu, Shigeto ; Honda, Makoto ; Harasawa, Katsuyoshi ; Hirota, Osamu ; Kawanishi, Satoki ; Kenichi, Ohhata ; Yamashita, Kiichi
Author_Institution :
Hitachi Inf. & Commun. Eng. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
Secure optical transmission experiment is demonstrated using a stream cipher by quantum noise. The bit error rates of a 10 Gbit/s signal through 360 km fiber for authentic receiver and eavesdropper are 5×10-7 and 0.4 ~0.5.
Keywords :
cryptography; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; quantum noise; telecommunication security; authentic receiver; bit error rates; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; distance 360 km; optical network; optical transmission security; quantum noise; stream cipher; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
