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Experimental Demonstration of An Efficient Correlation Attack Method in 300km QAM/QNSC Transmission

Mingrui Zhang, Yajie Li, Kongni Zhu, Shuang Wei, Yuang Li, Yongli Zhao, Jie Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose an efficient correlation attack based on low-order demodulation to recover the seed keys in QNSC. Experiment results prove its high success possibility and low computational complexity in 300km QAM/QNSC transmission.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2024.th3b.2

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