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Practical Aspects of Quantum Cryptographic Key Distribution
Performance of various experimental realizations of quantum cryptographic protocols using polarization or phase coding are compared, including a new self-balanced interferometric setup using Faraday mirrors. ...
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Quantum Cryptography and Long Distance Bell Experiments: How to Control Decoherence
Several mechanisms that affect one and two photon coherence in optical fibers and their remedies are discussed. The results axe illustrated on quantum cryptography experiments and on long distance Bell inequal...
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Entanglement Purification
In Chap. 7 the theory of quantum error correction was presented. The present chapter describes an alternative method of overcoming decoherence which is particularly useful for quantum state communication. The ...
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Quantum Cryptography
Human desire to communicate secretly is at least as old as writing itself and goes back to the beginnings of our civilisation. Methods of secret communication were developed by many ancient societies, includin...
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Influence of the Local Oscillator on Homodyne Detection of Squeezed Vacuum
In this work, we use our interpretation of Squeezed States (S.S.) of light as states possessing quantum correlations between photons1,2 to analyze the influence of the Local Oscillator (L.O.) on the two-port homo...