Abstract
High visibility (V = 0.985) single photon fringe measurements in a 10 km long, optical fibre-based, time- and polarisation-division Mach-Zehnder interferometer are reported. The ability of the system to transmit key data in a quantum cryptography scheme is assessed.
Keywords
Quantum cryptographyVisibilityInterferometryQuantum key distributionOpticsPhotonMach–Zehnder interferometerChannel (broadcasting)PhysicsQuantum channelPhoton countingKey (lock)CryptographyComputer scienceQuantumElectronic engineeringQuantum entanglementTelecommunicationsQuantum informationEngineeringQuantum mechanicsAlgorithm
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- 1993
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- article
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 1291-1293
- Citations
- 109
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P. D. Townsend,
A. Ougazzaden,
P. R. Tapster
(1993).
Enhanced single photon fringe visibility in a 10 km-long prototype quantum cryptography channel.
Electronics Letters
, 29
(14)
, 1291-1293.
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19930862
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- DOI
- 10.1049/el:19930862