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Noise resilient wavelength-multiplexed high-dimensional quantum key distribution

Kai-Chi Chang, Kemal Enes Akyuz, Yujie Chen, Ningning Wang, Chee Wei Wong

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We studied wavelength-multiplexed, high-dimensional time-bin encoding protocol under noisy experimental conditions. We measure total key rate of 229.790 kbits/s without noise and sustain positive key rate from 10 frequency-multiplexed channel pairs under high noise regime.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2026.fm4c.4

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