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Experimental Verification of Physical Layer Key Generation and Distribution Based on End-to-End Error Vector Phase

Yanwen Zhu, Yuang Li, Xu Zhang, Yi Huang, Huibin Zhang, Yixin Wang, Jie Zhang

Published Jun 29, 2025• 0 citations

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Abstract

We propose and experimentally verify an error-free 0.8 Gbps key generation rate optical communication system based on Error Vector Phase over 120km Fiber, without modifying the existing commercial system architecture.

DOI: 10.23919/oecc/psc62146.2025.11109185

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