October 5, 2005
Author(s)
Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams, A Gross, E Hagley, J Wen
We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the bit-stream, generation of random numbers and processing of the sifting algorithm are all handled