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Thanks to intrinsically short electronic relaxation on the ps time scale, III-V semiconductor unipolar devices are ideal candidates for ultrahigh-speed operation at mid-infrared frequencies. In this work, antenna-coupled, GaAs-based multi…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-13 Quyang Lin , Michael Hakl , Sylvie Lepillet , Hua Li , Jean-Francois Lampin , Emilien Peytavit , Stefano Barbieri

Self-testing and Semi-Device Independent protocols are becoming the preferred choice for quantum technologies, being able to certify their quantum nature with few assumptions and simple experimental implementations. In particular for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Davide Rusca , Hamid Tebyanian , Anthony Martin , Hugo Zbinden

We present an analysis of the time domain measurement of temporally resolvable quantum states using balanced homodyne detection. Our approach outlines a formalism of detecting quantum states in arbitrary temporal modes via projection of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Owen Sandner , Brendan Mackey , Yuyang Liu , Connor Kupchak , Andrew MacRae

In comparison to conventional discrete-variable (DV) quantum key distribution (QKD), continuous-variable (CV) QKD with homodyne/heterodyne measurements has distinct advantages of lower-cost implementation and affinity to wavelength division…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Takaya Matsuura , Kento Maeda , Toshihiko Sasaki , Masato Koashi

This paper proposes a multi-mode Gaussian modulated continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) scheme able to operate at high bandwidth despite using conventional noisy, coherent detectors. We demonstrate enhancement in shotnoise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Rupesh Kumar , Xinke Tang , Adrian Wonfor , Richard Penty , Ian White

This report describes the design and proposal of a wireless link capable of broadcasting at 1 Gbps. For this application, isotropic antennas, 256 QAM modulation, and BER level less than 1e-5, without using error correction coding, were…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 David Noel

We design and demonstrate a resonant-type differential photodetector for low-noise quantum homodyne measurement at 500MHz optical sideband with 17MHz of bandwidth. By using a microwave monolithic amplifier and a discrete voltage buffer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Takahiro Serikawa , Akira Furusawa

To improve the performance of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, high speed, low dark count single photon detectors (or low noise homodyne detectors) are required. However, in practice, a fast detector is usually noisy. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Qi , Yi Zhao , Xiongfeng Ma , Hoi-Kwong Lo , Li Qian

We describe a continuous variables coherent states quantum key distribution system working at 1550 nm, and entirely made of standard fiber optics and telecom components, such as integrated-optics modulators, couplers and fast InGaAs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jérôme Lodewyck , Thierry Debuisschert , Rosa Tualle-Brouri , Philippe Grangier

In this paper, we study the feasibility of conducting quantum key distribution (QKD) together with classical communication through the same optical fiber by employing dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) technology at telecom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bing Qi , Wen Zhu , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo

We experimentally study a homodyne detection technique for the characterization of a quadrature squeezed field where the correlated bands, here created by four-wave mixing in a hot atomic vapor, are separated by a large frequency gap of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Christopher S. Embrey , Joshua Hordell , Plamen G. Petrov , Vincent Boyer

High-dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) offers a promising approach to enhance secret key rates beyond conventional binary-encoded QKD, addressing the growing demand for secure data transmission. However, the practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yang Zhou , Xing-Yu Zhou , Shu-Fan Wu , Qiang Zeng , Zhi-Liang Yuan , Qin Wang

We present a QKD system with fainted pulses using self-homodyne coherent detection in optical fibers at 1543nm. BB84 protocol key is encoded in the optical phase using a twoelectrode Mach-Zehnder modulator, producing a QPSK modulation.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Costa e Silva , Q. Xu , S. Agnolini , P. Gallion , F. J. Mendieta

We present a quantum algorithm for estimating the amplitude content of user-specified sequency bands in quantum-encoded signals. The method employs a sequency-ordered Quantum Walsh-Hadamard Transform (QWHT), a comparator-based oracle that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

III-V semiconductor mid-infrared photodetectors based on intersubband transitions hold a great potential for ultra-high-speed operation up to several hundreds of GHz. In this work we exploit a ~350nm-thick GaAs/Al0.2Ga0.8As…

We use single homodyne detector to accomplish Continuous-Variable quantum key distribution(CV QKD) in a laboratory and urban environment free-space channel. This is based on Gaussian modulation with coherent-states in the polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Shi-Yang Shen , Ming-Wei Dai , Xue-Tao Zheng , Qi-Yao Sun , Bing Zhu , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Fu Han

Random numbers are commonly used in many different fields, ranging from simulations in fundamental science to security applications. In some critical cases, as Bell's tests and cryptography, the random numbers are required to be both secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Marco Avesani , Davide G. Marangon , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

We measure the joint Q-function of a multi-spatial-mode field using a charge-coupled device array detector in an unbalanced heterodyne configuration. The intensity pattern formed by interference between a weak signal field and a strong…

In this letter, we propose a quantum integrated sensing and communication scheme for a quantum optical link using binary phase-shift keying modulation and homodyne detection. The link operates over a phase-insensitive Gaussian channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Krikidis

We present a discretely modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution system in free space by using strong coherent states. The amplitude noise in the laser source is suppressed to the shot-noise limit by using a mode cleaner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yong Shen , Hongxin Zou , Liang Tian , Pingxing Chen , Jianmin Yuan