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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Long Distance Quantum Key Distribution in Optical Fiber

Danna Rosenberg, Charles G. Peterson, Jim Harrington, Patrick R. Rice, Nicholas A. Dallmann, K. Tyagi, Kevin P. McCabe, Richard Hughes, J. E. Nordholt, Robert H. Hadfield, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam

Published Feb 1, 2008• 7 citations
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Abstract

Results are presented from an experiment using quantum key distribution with decoy states and low- noise superconducting nanowire single photon detectors to distribute secure key across 145 km of optical fiber.
DOI
10.1109/ofc.2008.4528715

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