Practical gigahertz quantum key distribution robust against channel disturbance.

Autor: Wang S, Chen W, Yin ZQ, He DY, Hui C, Hao PL, Fan-Yuan GJ, Wang C, Zhang LJ, Kuang J, Liu SF, Zhou Z, Wang YG, Guo GC, Han ZF
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2018 May 01; Vol. 43 (9), pp. 2030-2033.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.002030
Abstrakt: Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides an attractive solution for secure communication. However, channel disturbance severely limits its application when a QKD system is transferred from the laboratory to the field. Here a high-speed Faraday-Sagnac-Michelson QKD system is proposed that can automatically compensate for the channel polarization disturbance, which largely avoids the intermittency limitations of environment mutation. Over a 50 km fiber channel with 30 Hz polarization scrambling, the practicality of this phase-coding QKD system was characterized with an interference fringe visibility of 99.35% over 24 h and a stable secure key rate of 306 k bits/s over seven days without active polarization alignment.
Databáze: MEDLINE