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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

360km Field Transmission of 10 Gbit/s Stream Cipher by Quantum Noise for Optical Network

Yoshifumi Doi, Shigeto Akutsu, Makoto Honda, Katsuyoshi Harasawa, Osamu Hirota, Satoki Kawanishi, Kenichi Ohhata, Kiichi Yamashita

Published Jan 1, 2010• 14 citations
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Abstract

Secure optical transmission experiment is demonstrated using a stream cipher by quantum noise. The bit error rates of a 10Gbit/s signal through 360km fiber for authentic receiver and eavesdropper are 5×10-7 and 0.4 ～0.5.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2010.owc4

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