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Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

A Negotiated Physical Layer Security Key Generation and Distribution Based on Amplified Spontaneous Emission

Xubiao Zhang, Yifan Ge, Jiajia Shen, Jiamin Fan, Jing Deng, Mingyi Gao

Published Nov 2, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We proposed and experimentally demonstrated a 2.5 Gb/s negotiated security key generation and distribution (SKGD) system based on amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). The cross-correlation of 0.85 has been achieved over 30-km SSMF.
DOI
10.1109/acp/ipoc63121.2024.10810092

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