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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

AlGaAsOI Photonics and Low-Loss Links for High-Speed Entanglement-Based Quantum Key Distribution

Trevor J. Steiner, Joshua E. Castro, Alex Dinkelacker, Lin Chang, John Edward Bowers, Galan Moody

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a record-high detected entangled-photon pair coincidence rate from an AlGaAs-on-insulator microring resonator with raw coincidence rates >19 kHz that is capable of time-bin entanglement-based QKD with an estimated secure key rate of 1.4 kbits/second.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff4j.5

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