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Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

Deployment-Oriented Integration of DV-QKD and 100G Optical Transmission System

Junsen Lai, Xiangyu Lin, Yi Qian, Lu Liu, Wenyu Zhao, Haiyi Zhang

Published Nov 2, 2019• 8 citations
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Abstract

Practical deployment scheme of integrating commercially available DV-QKD with 100G optical transmission system are proposed and experimentally verified. The requirement, limitation, and prospect of integrated DV-QKD and DWDM system application are also discussed.

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