Effective Excess Noise Suppression in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution through Carrier Frequency Switching

Autor: Jing Dong, Tao Wang, Zhuxuan He, Yueer Shi, Lang Li, Peng Huang, Guihua Zeng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Entropy, Vol 25, Iss 9, p 1286 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e25091286
Popis: Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is a promising protocol that can be easily integrated with classical optical communication systems. However, in the case of quantum-classical co-transmissions, such as dense wavelength division multiplexing with classical channels and time division multiplexing with large-power classical signal, a quantum signal is more susceptible to crosstalk caused by a classical signal, leading to signal distortion and key distribution performance reduction. To address this issue, we propose a noise-suppression scheme based on carrier frequency switching (CFS) that can effectively mitigate the influence of large-power random noise on the weak coherent state. In this noise-suppression scheme, a minimum-value window of the channel’s noise power spectrum is searched for and the transmission signal frequency spectrum shifts to the corresponding frequency to avoid large-power channel noise. A digital filter is also utilized to filter out most of the channel noise. Simulation results show that compared to the traditional fixed carrier frequency scheme, the proposed noise-suppression scheme can reduce the excess noise to 1.8%, and the secret key rate can be increased by 1.43 to 2.86 times at different distances. This noise-suppression scheme is expected to be applied in scenarios like quantum–classical co-transmission and multi-QKD co-transmission to provide noise-suppression solutions.
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