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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

High-rate Time-bin Quantum Key Distribution Using Quantum-controlled Measurement

Nurul T. Islam, Charles Ci Wen Lim, Clinton Cahall, Bing Qi, Jungsang Kim, Daniel J. Gauthier

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We realize a time-bin qudit-based quantum key distribution system that uses two-photon interference for measuring the phase-basis states, allowing us to generate a secret key at a megabits-per-second rate.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.ftu3g.3

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