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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Experimental Demonstration of an Active Quantum Key Distribution Network with Over Gbps Clock Synchronization | NIST

Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Xu Hai, Oliver Slattery, Xiao Hong Tang

Published Dec 4, 2007• 0 citations
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