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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548126
