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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2799756
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We report the distribution of a cryptographic key, secure from photon number splitting attacks, over 35 km of optical fiber using single photons from an InAs quantum dot emitting similar to 1.3 mu m in a pillar microcavity. Using below GaAs-bandgap optical excitation, we demonstrate suppression of multiphoton emission to 10% of the Poissonian level without detector dark count subtraction. The source is incorporated into a phase encoded interferometric scheme implementing the BB84 protocol for key distribution over standard telecommunication optical fiber. We show a transmission distance advantage over that possible with (length-optimized) uniform intensity weak coherent pulses at 1310 nm in the same system. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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