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QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE

Multiplex quantum cryptography based on time coding without interferometers

S. N. Molotkov<sup>ab

a</sup> Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
^b M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics

Abstract: Three fundamentally new experimental prototypes of optical fiber quantum-cryptography schemes are described. They are appreciably simpler than the available prototypes, contain fewer optical fiber components, and do not require adjustment during key generation. These cryptosystems can naturally be called quantum time-shift cryptography. They realize the B92 protocol and use a pair of nonorthogonal single-photon states as information states. One such scheme does not use fiber-optic Mach–Zehnder interferometers and, therefore, provides natural realization of the multiplex secure-key distribution regime.

PACS: 03.67.Dt, 42.50.-p, 89.70.+c

Received: 03.03.2004

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2004, 79:9, 445–449

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