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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Energy-Time Entanglement Based Dispersive Optics Quantum Key Distribution over Optical Fibers of 20 km

Xu Liu, Xin Yao, Heqing Wang, Hao Li, Lixing You, Yidong Huang, Wei Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2019• 2 citations
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Abstract

An energy-time entanglement based dispersive-optics quantum key distribution is demonstrated experimentally over 20 km optical fibers, in which photon pairs are generated by spontaneous four wave mixing in a silicon waveguide.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2019.jtu2a.33

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