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Chris Erven
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Last updated: July 15th, 2008 @ 3:21pm

*All of these articles, presentations, and posters are available to aid in research. The images and information can be used in things like class projects, teaching, and small presentations - suitably referenced of course, after all I did work hard on this =) Any uses of a professional nature (commercial or scientific) require the permission of the authors.*

Papers and Articles

Entangled Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
An article for the proceedings of the Quantum Communications Realized - SPIE Conference, which Gregor wrote and I'm a coauthor on.
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
A very accessible Phys 13 Article which I wrote about my QKD system.
Communicating With An Eerie Green Beam Of Light
An article in the Waterloo Record about my QKD system.
Entanglement Based Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
An article for the proceedings of the Photonics North 2008 - SPIE Conference.
*For details about the system refer to the arXiv article, this is a bare bones article that I really only wrote for the proceedings of the conference because I had to =P The only useful thing compared to the arXiv article is that it has a second QKD data set (from a different nights experimenting work) and also results for a Bell experiment. A working link for it will be posted as soon as it's published.
Entangled Quantum Key Distribution Over Two Free-Space Optical Links
My first physics journal article, posted on the arXiv, detailing our QKD system and the results we got this past April 2008 with the full 2 free-space link system.

Presentations

Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
- Variations on a theme (these are all pretty much the same presentation tailored to slightly different audiences in each case):
- My latest presentation at The Quantum Crypto North Meeting 2008
- My presentation presented at The 4th Annual Canadian Quantum Information Students' Conference 2007.
- My Masters Defence presentation.
- My Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution for a General Audience presentation presented at The UW Graduate Student Research Conference 2007.
  Won the Best Judged Oral Presentation in the area of Physical Science, Math, and Technology.

Posters

QKD in Space
A poster describing our QKD system, some results, and the SpaceQUEST proposal in front of ESA (The European Space Agency) to perform QKD with the ISS and two ground stations.
Presented at:
- The CSA Life and Physical Sciences in Space Workshop 2008
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
My latest QKD poster describing the background of the QKD system, the details of our latest setup, and initial results from the system.
Presented at:
- The Second QuantumWorks Annual General Meeting 2007
- The First European Young Scientists Conference on Quantum Information 2007 (first presented here)
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Protocol
My original QKD poster outlining the planned system and giving a QKD For Dummies visual tutorial on QKD and why its secure.
Presented at:
- The Third Annual Ontario Photonics Consortium Meeting 2007
  Won 3rd place in the OPIN Best Poster Awards at the meeting.
- The Second Annual Ontario Photonics Consortium Meeting 2006 (first presented here)
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution
Original QKD proposal poster by Gregor Weihs.