Roadmap of optical communications

Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson, A R Chraplyvy, David J Richardson, Peter M Krummrich, Peter Winzer, Kim Roberts, Johannes Karl Fischer, Seb J Savory, Benjamin J Eggleton, Marco Secondini, Frank R Kschischang (+7 others)
2016 Journal of Optics  
Quantum Communication is the art of transferring an unknown quantum state from one location, Alice, to a distant one, Bob. This is a non-trivial task because of the quantum no-cloning theorem which prevents one from merely using only classical means.
doi:10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/063002 fatcat:vo3kd4v66vbwtjojvr4mmasn6u