Coherence modulation at the photon-counting level: A new scheme for secure communication

2nd International Symposium "Optics and its Applications"

Rhodes, William T.^1 ; Boughanmi, Abdellatif^1 ; Moreno, Yezid Torres^2

Florida Atlantic University, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Boca Raton

FL

33431, United States^1

Universidad Industrial de Santander, GOTS, Grupo de Óptica y Tratamiento de Senales, Escuela de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Bucaramanga, Colombia^2

关键词: Binary signals;    Photon counting;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/672/1/012011/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/672/1/012011

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

When operated at the photon-counting level, coherence modulation can provide quantifiably secure binary signal transmission between two entities, security being based on the nonclonability of photons.