Abstract
We review theory and experiments for quantum illumination—entanglement-based protocols for enhanced target detection and secure classical communication—and show that its unentangled descendant, floodlight quantum key distribution, affords Gbps secret-key rates over metropolitan-area distances.
© 2017 Optical Society of America
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