Title :
Photon statistics of optical phase modulators and attenuators
Author :
Pradeep Kumar, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Abstract :
We show that optical phase modulation and attenuation operators do not commute in general. This has implications for frequency-coded quantum key distribution.
Keywords :
optical attenuators; optical modulation; phase modulation; photon counting; quantum cryptography; attenuation operators; frequency-coded QKD systems; frequency-coded quantum key distribution; optical phase modulators; photon statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
