Compact Coding Using Multi-Photon Tolerant Quantum Protocols For Quantum Communication

This paper presents a new encryption scheme called Compact Coding that encodes information in time, phase, and intensity domains, simultaneously. While these approaches have previously been used one at a time, the proposed scheme brings to bear for the first time their strengths simultaneously leading to an increase in the secure information transfer rate. The proposed scheme is applicable to both optical fibers and free space optics, and can be considered as an alternative to polarization coding. This paper applies the proposed compact coding scheme to multi-photon tolerant quantum protocols in order to produce quantum-level security during information transfer. We present the structure of the proposed coding scheme in a multi-photon environment and address its operation.

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