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International Conference on Optical Internet

Configuration of time-division interferometer for stability enhancement of one-way QKD system

Jeong-sik Cho, Sae-kyoung Kang, Kwangjoon Kim

Published Jul 1, 2010• 1 citation
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Abstract

We propose a configuration method of a time-division interferometer for stability enhancement of a phase-encoded one-way quantum key distribution system. An optical phase modulator was placed outside of an optical interferometer to shorten the optical path length of the optical fiber-based interferometer.
DOI
10.1109/coin.2010.5546620

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