• DocumentCode
    2634837
  • Title

    Fortnight quantum key generation field trial using QBER monitoring

  • Author

    Tanaka, A. ; Maeda, W. ; Tajima, A. ; Takahashi, S.

  • Author_Institution
    NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-28 Oct. 2005
  • Firstpage
    557
  • Lastpage
    558
  • Abstract
    Frame synchronization and supervisory control scheme were proposed for use in QKD, which all were based on QBER monitoring. Using these techniques proposed here, two weeks of continuous quantum key generation were performed through a field aerial fiber.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; optical fibre communication; quantum cryptography; synchronisation; QBER monitoring; QKD; field aerial fiber; fortnight quantum key generation; frame synchronization; secured communication system; supervisory control scheme; Clocks; Cryptography; Delay; Monitoring; Optical fiber communication; Optical signal processing; Signal processing; Supervisory control; Synchronization; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9217-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548126
  • Filename
    1548126