The evolution of quantum key distribution networks: On the road to the qinternet

Y Cao, Y Zhao, Q Wang, J Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum key distribution (QKD) constitutes a symmetric secret key negotiation protocol
capable of maintaining information-theoretic security. Given the recent advances in QKD …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications

CM Natarajan, MG Tanner… - … science and technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have
rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths …

Entangled photon-pair sources based on three-wave mixing in bulk crystals

A Anwar, C Perumangatt, F Steinlechner… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Entangled photon pairs are a critical resource in quantum communication protocols ranging
from quantum key distribution to teleportation. The current workhorse technique for …

State-of-the-art survey of quantum cryptography

A Kumar, S Garhwal - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
In today Internet era, confidential information transmitted over an insecure channel. With the
significant development in the area of quantum computing, there is a need for unconditional …

Nonlocal temporal interferometry for highly resilient free-space quantum communication

L Bulla, M Pivoluska, K Hjorth, O Kohout, J Lang… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Entanglement distribution via photons over long distances enables many applications,
including quantum key distribution, which provides unprecedented privacy. The inevitable …

Quantum teleportation over 100 km of fiber using highly efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

H Takesue, SD Dyer, MJ Stevens, V Verma, RP Mirin… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Quantum teleportation is an essential quantum operation by which we can transfer an
unknown quantum state to a remote location with the help of quantum entanglement and …

Air-core fiber distribution of hybrid vector vortex-polarization entangled states

D Cozzolino, E Polino, M Valeri… - Advanced …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Entanglement distribution between distant parties is one of the most important and
challenging tasks in quantum communication. Distribution of photonic entangled states …

Scalable network for simultaneous pairwise quantum key distribution via entanglement-based time-bin coding

E Fitzke, L Bialowons, T Dolejsky, M Tippmann… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We present a scalable star-shaped quantum-key-distribution (QKD) optical-fiber network.
We use wavelength-division demultiplexing (WDM) of broadband photon pairs to establish …

Single-shot compressed ultrafast photography: a review

D Qi, S Zhang, C Yang, Y He, F Cao, J Yao… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) is a burgeoning single-shot computational
imaging technique that provides an imaging speed as high as 10 trillion frames per second …

Hyperentanglement quantum communication over a 50 km noisy fiber channel

ZQ Zhong, XH Zhan, JL Chen, S Wang, ZQ Yin… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
High-dimensional entanglement not only offers a high security level for quantum
communication but also promises improved information capacity and noise resistance of the …