학술논문

Experimental demonstration of Subcarrier Multiplexed Quantum Key Distribution system feasibility
Document Type
Conference
Source
2011 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on. :1-4 Jun, 2011
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Multiplexing
Optical filters
Photonics
Optical attenuators
Amplitude modulation
Optical pulses
Optical fiber communications
quantum information
quantum key distribution (QKD)
subcarrier multiplexing
Language
ISSN
2161-2056
2162-7339
2161-2064
Abstract
We report our recent advances in the implementation of a BB84 quantum key distribution demonstrator based on subcarrier multiplexing. A thorough description of all the system modules is provided both in the classical and quantum regimes that are supported by experimental results. We demonstrate that maximum multiplexing gain is achieved when low modulation regime is considered thus fully exploiting the quantum multiplexing process.