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

Introduction to optical quantum cryptography

Tomasz Adamski

Published Oct 21, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

In recent years very fast progress in the domain of Optical Quantum Cryptography is observed both in theoretical and practical aspects. The paper is a short tutorial review of basic concepts of Optical Quantum Cryptography (OQC) and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).
DOI
10.1117/12.784761

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