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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Study of an optical quantum communication system based on polarization-state mapping to Hamiltonian sphere

Shyh‐Lin Tsao, Jian-Lin Chiu

Published Oct 19, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we design and simulate a quantum optical communications system based on polarization state mapping to Hamiltonian sphere. We develop a mapping method for quantum Stokes receiver reading the data. A ring-structure encoder and decoder are also applied for the quantum encryption. With simulation results demonstration, our quantum communication system can provide a well security for information processing. Our achievements provide a new way for designing, manipulating and realizing a quantum communication system in the future.

DOI
10.1117/12.559426

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