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Practical Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution over 1 km
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Fri Oct 23 12:24:14 1998
To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: gs.satellite@Qualcomm.com, gs.security@Qualcomm.com
From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:04:51 -0700
W.T. BUTTLER et al: Practical Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution over 1 km
Physical Review Letters, vol 81, no 15, pp 3051-3301 (1998).
<http://ojps.aip.org/journal_cgi/getpdf?KEY=PRLTAO&cvips=PRLTAO000081000015003283000001>
Abstract:
A working free-space quantum key distribution system has been developed and
tested over an outdoor optical path of ~ 1 km at Los Alamos National
Laboratory under nighttime conditions. Results show that free-space quantum
key distribution can provide secure real-time key distribution between
parties who have a need to communicate secretly. Finally, we examine the
feasibility of surface to satellite quantum key distribution.
/pbp
