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Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…
Quantum network facilitates the secure transmission of information between different users. Establishing communication links among multiple users in a scalable and efficient way is important for realizing a large-scale quantum network. Here…
We present the results obtained by applying, in real-time, a correction method to precisely synchronize a time base generated from a free-running atomic clock with the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The method uses the Global Navigation…
Phase compensated optical fiber links enable high accuracy atomic clocks separated by thousands of kilometers to be compared with unprecedented statistical resolution. By searching for a daily variation of the frequency difference between…
A new scheme of quantum key distribution (QKD) using frequency and time coding is proposed, in which the security is based on the frequency-time uncertainty relation. In this scheme, the binary information sequence is encoded randomly on…
A multi-party protocol for distributed quantum clock synchronization has been claimed to provide universal limits on the clock accuracy, viz. that accuracy monotonically decreases with the number n of party members. But, this is only true…
Integrated photonics provides a route both to miniaturize quantum key distribution (QKD) devices and to enhance their performance. A key element for achieving discrete-variable QKD is a single-photon detector. It is highly desirable to…
A fully-asynchronous network with one target sensor and a few anchors (nodes with known locations) is considered. Localization and synchronization are traditionally treated as two separate problems. In this paper, localization and…
We demonstrate a distributed atomic clocks network between Shanghai Institute of Optics and fine Mechanics (SIOM) and Shanghai Institute of Measurement and Test (SIMT). The frequency signals from three different clocks transfer in one fiber…
We demonstrate the distribution of polarization-entangled photons for the purpose of quantum key distribution (QKD) along active telecom fibers. Entangled photon pairs of 810 nm wavelength generated by a Sagnac interferometer source were…
We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…
To exploit the full potential of radio measurements of cosmic-ray air showers at MHz frequencies, a detector timing synchronization within 1 ns is needed. Large distributed radio detector arrays such as the Auger Engineering Radio Array…
Efficient synchronization of single photons that are compatible with narrowband atomic transitions is an outstanding challenge, which could prove essential for photonic quantum information processing. Here we report on the synchronization…
We demonstrate a method to reduce the number of single-photon detectors (SPDs) required in multi-party quantum key distribution (QKD) networks by a factor of two by using detector time multiplexing (DTM). We implement the DTM scheme for an…
Synchronizing clocks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices is important for applications such as monitoring and real time control. In this paper, we describe a system for clock synchronization in IoT devices that is designed to be scalable,…
Quantum dots (QDs) offer significant potential for applications in quantum information and optoelectronic devices; however, conventional time-resolved spectroscopy cannot generally simultaneously extract both long-lived relaxation dynamics…
Over the past few decades, fiber-optic time synchronization (FOTS) has provided fundamental support for the efficient operation of modern society. Looking toward the future beyond fifth-generation/sixth-generation (B5G/6G) scenarios and…
We introduce the architecture and timing algorithm to realize a time-bin-encoded quantum photonic neural network (QPNN): a reconfigurable nonlinear photonic circuit inspired by the brain and trained to process quantum information. Unlike…
We theoretically investigate the problem of finding optimal characteristics of photon pairs, produced in the spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process, for fiber-based quantum communication (QC) protocols. By using the…
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a crucial technology for information security in the future. Developing simple and efficient ways to establish QKD among multiple users are important to extend the applications of QKD in communication…