2-GHz clock quantum key distribution over 260 km of standard telecom fiber

Shuang Wang; Wei Chen; Jun-Fu Guo; Zhen-Qiang Yin; Hong-Wei Li; Zheng Zhou; Guang-Can Guo; Zheng-Fu Han

doi:10.1364/OL.37.001008

2-GHz clock quantum key distribution over 260 km of standard telecom fiber

Quantum Physics 2012-03-21 v1

Authors: Shuang Wang , Wei Chen , Jun-Fu Guo , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Hong-Wei Li , Zheng Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Fu Han

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Abstract

We report a demonstration of quantum key distribution (QKD) over a standard telecom fiber exceeding 50 dB in loss and 250 km in length. The differential phase shift QKD protocol was chosen and implemented with 2 GHz system clock rate. By careful optimization of the 1-bit delayed Faraday-Michelson interferometer and the use of the super-conducting single photon detector (SSPD), we achieved a quantum bit error rate below 2% when the fiber length was no more than 205 km, and of 3.45% for the 260 km length fiber with 52.9 dB loss. We also improved the quantum efficiency of SSPD to obtain high key rate for 50 km length.

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quantum key distribution differential phase shift 2 GHz clock standard telecom fiber superconducting single photon detector quantum bit error rate

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@article{arxiv.1203.4323,
  title  = {2-GHz clock quantum key distribution over 260 km of standard telecom fiber},
  author = {Shuang Wang and Wei Chen and Jun-Fu Guo and Zhen-Qiang Yin and Hong-Wei Li and Zheng Zhou and Guang-Can Guo and Zheng-Fu Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4323},
  year   = {2012}
}

2-GHz clock quantum key distribution over 260 km of standard telecom fiber

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