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Method of the balancing of Mach-Zehnder fiber-optic interferometers in single-pass quantum cryptography

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A distributed balancing method for single-pass quantum cryptographic systems with phase encoding has been proposed. This method allows completely automated balancing, is quite universal, and can be used in other optical experiments.

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. P. Kulik

  2. Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

  3. Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Novyi Arbat 19, Moscow, 103025, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

  4. Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

  5. Faculty of Information Technologies and Computer Engineering, National Research University Higher School of Economics, ul. Myasnitskaya 20, Moscow, 101000, Russia

    T. A. Potapova

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Original Russian Text © S.P. Kulik, S.N. Molotkov, T.A. Potapova, 2013, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2013, Vol. 98, No. 10, pp. 700–706.

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Kulik, S.P., Molotkov, S.N. & Potapova, T.A. Method of the balancing of Mach-Zehnder fiber-optic interferometers in single-pass quantum cryptography. Jetp Lett. 98, 626–631 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364013230069

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