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International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics

Experimental demonstration of subcarrier multiplexed quantum key distribution

A. Ruiz-Alba, Jose Mora, J. Capmany, Waldimar Amaya, Arturo Ortigosa-Blanch

Published Jan 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

We provide for the first time, to our knowledge, an experimental demonstration of the feasibility of Subcarrier Multiplexed Quantum Key Distribution (SCM-QKD).

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