DocumentCode
610773
Title
Photon statistics of optical phase modulators and attenuators
Author
Pradeep Kumar, K.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India
fYear
2012
fDate
9-12 Dec. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chennai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4718-1
Type
conf
Filename
6545791
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