title: Giant fiber lasers: a new paradigm for secure key distribution.
abstract: We propose and analyze a new concept for secure key distribution based on establishing laser oscillations between the sender and receiver. Compared to quantum mechanics based systems, our scheme allows for significantly higher key-establishing rates and longer ranges. By properly designing the laser structure, it is possible to increase the difficulty of eavesdropping almost arbitrarily, thus making our scheme an intriguing alternative and a complementary technology to quantum key-distribution systems.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel. kobys@eng.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scheuer
authors.forename: Amnon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yariv