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Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics

Analysis of the effect of magneto-optic effect on BB84 protocol

Han Bao-bin

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Four polarization states are used for key distribution in the BB84 protocol,but the polarization states will be rotated for magneto-optic effect during the transmission.Po- larization variation will effect distribution of the key,so a means for polarization restoration is required.After the introduction of BB84 protocol and the four states the effect of polar- ization rotation on quantum key distribution is analyzed.The simulation by Matlab shows the rotation of polarization state will effect key distribution.At last,a feasible method is presented.

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State of polarization(SOP) of single photon is the information carrier of polarization encoding BB84 protocol. SOP of quantum must be interrupted when quantum key distribution(QKD) propagates with classical signal in the same fiber. Coexistence schemes of quantum-classical signal based on two-channel and four-channel have been built respectively on Optisystem in this paper. The influence on SOP of quantum signal in BB84 protocol from different classical optical signal channel has been analyzed and compared by Stokes vector method and Poincare sphere method. SOP of 100 photons in QKD have been simulated. The results show that more channels will increase the bit error rate of QKD, and this paper has described the SOP changes well in coexistence scheme of quantum-classical signal based on wavelength division multiplexing.
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