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Journal of Modern Optics

Faint laser quantum key distribution: eavesdropping exploiting multiphoton pulses

StÉPhane Félix, Nicolas Gisin, André Stefanov, Hugo Zbinden

Published Nov 20, 2001• 25 citations
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10.1080/09500340110076437

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