Damien Stucki

TL;DR: The paper presents the architecture and functionality of the principal networking agent?the SECOQC node module, which enables the authentic classical communication required for key distillation, manages the generated key material, determines a communication path between any destinations in the network, and realizes end-to-end secure transport of key material between these destinations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a fibre-optical quantum key distribution system based on the plug-and-play set-up, which works at 1550nm and is tested under field conditions using aerial and terrestrial cables and performed key exchange over 67 km between Geneva and Lausanne.

TL;DR: Taking advantage of ultra low loss fibres and low-noise superconducting detectors, this paper presents a fully automated quantum key distribution prototype running at 625 MHz clock rate that can distribute 6000 secret bits s−1 over 100 km and 15‬bits‬s–1 over 250‬km.

TL;DR: The performance of the SwissQuantum quantum key distribution (QKD) network for more than one-and-a-half years was investigated in this article, from the end of March 2009 to the beginning of January 2011.

TL;DR: A new protocol for practical quantum cryptography, tailored for an implementation with weak coherent pulses to obtain a high key generation rate, featuring a high efficiency in terms of distilled secret bit per qubit.