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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Simulation of quantum key distribution in a 16x16 optical fiber network

Hsin‐Hung Lin, Shyh‐Lin Tsao

Published Oct 19, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a 16x16 optical communication wavelength-switching network with quantum key distribution. We analyze the quantum ke distribution with considering the relationship betwee wavelength-switch bandwidth and distortion for 16x16 Dilated Benes optical wavelength-switching networks. We compare the performance of the quantum key distribution for wavelength-switching bandwidth in a 16x16 optical communication system, based on 2.5 Gbps, 10Gbps and 40Gbps, respectively.

DOI
10.1117/12.559461

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