A photonic integrated quantum secure communication system
| العنوان: | A photonic integrated quantum secure communication system |
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| المؤلفون: | Davide G. Marangon, Mirko Sanzaro, James F. Dynes, Robert I. Woodward, Innocenzo De Marco, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields, Thomas Roger, Taofiq K. Paraïso |
| المصدر: | Nature Photonics. 15:850-856 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer science, Qubit, Photonic integrated circuit, Electronic engineering, Quantum channel, Hardware random number generator, Quantum key distribution, Quantum information, Communications system, Quantum information science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials |
| الوصف: | Photonic integrated circuits hold great promise in enabling the practical wide-scale deployment of quantum communications; however, despite impressive experiments of component functionality, a fully operational quantum communication system using photonic chips is yet to be demonstrated. Here we demonstrate an entirely standalone secure communication system based on photonic integrated circuits—assembled into compact modules—for quantum random number generation and quantum key distribution at gigahertz clock rates. The bit values, basis selection and decoy pulse intensities used for quantum key distribution are chosen at random, and are based on the output of a chip-based quantum random number generator operating at 4 Gb s–1. Error correction and privacy amplification are performed in real time to produce information-theoretic secure keys for a 100 Gb s–1 line speed data encryption system. We demonstrate long-term continuous operation of the quantum secured communication system using feedback controls to stabilize the qubit phase and propagation delay over metropolitan fibre lengths. These results mark an important milestone for the realistic deployment of quantum communications based on quantum photonic chips. Quantum photonic integrated circuits for a standalone quantum secure communication system are developed and packaged into pluggable interconnects. The system is interfaced with 100 Gb s–1 data encryptors and its performance is evaluated over 10 km to 50 km fibre links. |
| تدمد: | 1749-4893 1749-4885 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41566-021-00873-0 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4da20db0ffb0fd27c3ea1716d8cb8d49 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00873-0 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........4da20db0ffb0fd27c3ea1716d8cb8d49 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17494893 17494885 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41566-021-00873-0 |