Intensity modulator for secure, stable and high-performance decoy-state quantum key distribution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Yu Lu ◽  
Xing Lin ◽  
Shuang Wang ◽  
Guanjie Fanyuan ◽  
Peng Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Intensity Modulator

scholarly journals Intensity modulator for secure, stable, and high-performance decoy-state quantum key distribution

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Yu Lu ◽  
Xing Lin ◽  
Shuang Wang ◽  
Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan ◽  
Peng Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Modulation Method ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Intensity Modulator ◽  
State Method ◽  
Decoy State Method

AbstractThe decoy-state method substantially improves the performance of quantum key distribution (QKD) and perfectly solves crucial issues caused by multiphoton pulses. In recent years, the decoy-state method has occupied a key position in practicality, and almost all the QKD systems have employed the decoy-state method. However, the imperfections of traditional intensity modulators limit the performance of the decoy-state method and bring side channels. In this work, a special intensity modulator and its accompanying modulation method are designed and experimentally verified for the secure, stable, and high-performance decoy-state QKDs. The experimental result indicates that its stable and adjustable intensities, convenient two-level modulation, inherently high speed, and compact structure is extremely fit for future trends and will help the decoy-state method to be perfectly applied to QKD systems.

scholarly journals Patterning-effect mitigating intensity modulator for secure decoy-state quantum key distribution

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (20) ◽  
pp. 5110 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Roberts ◽  
M. Pittaluga ◽  
M. Minder ◽  
M. Lucamarini ◽  
J. F. Dynes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Intensity Modulator

scholarly journals Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with leaky sources

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilong Wang ◽  
Kiyoshi Tamaki ◽  
Marcos Curty
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Measurement Device ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Unrealistic Assumption ◽  
Measurement Device Independent

AbstractMeasurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can remove all detection side-channels from quantum communication systems. The security proofs require, however, that certain assumptions on the sources are satisfied. This includes, for instance, the requirement that there is no information leakage from the transmitters of the senders, which unfortunately is very difficult to guarantee in practice. In this paper we relax this unrealistic assumption by presenting a general formalism to prove the security of MDI-QKD with leaky sources. With this formalism, we analyze the finite-key security of two prominent MDI-QKD schemes—a symmetric three-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol and a four-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol—and determine their robustness against information leakage from both the intensity modulator and the phase modulator of the transmitters. Our work shows that MDI-QKD is feasible within a reasonable time frame of signal transmission given that the sources are sufficiently isolated. Thus, it provides an essential reference for experimentalists to ensure the security of implementations of MDI-QKD in the presence of information leakage.

scholarly journals Non-Poissonian statistics from Poissonian light sources with application to passive decoy state quantum key distribution

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (20) ◽  
pp. 3238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Curty ◽  
Tobias Moroder ◽  
Xiongfeng Ma ◽  
Norbert Lütkenhaus
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Poissonian Statistics

scholarly journals DECOY STATE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION

2005 ◽  
Vol 03 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 143-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOI-KWONG LO
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Generation Rate ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Bb84 Protocol ◽  
High Loss ◽  
Statistical Fluctuations

Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two parties to communicate in absolute security based on the fundamental laws of physics. Up till now, it is widely believed that unconditionally secure QKD based on standard Bennett-Brassard (BB84) protocol is limited in both key generation rate and distance because of imperfect devices. Here, we solve these two problems directly by presenting new protocols that are feasible with only current technology. Surprisingly, our new protocols can make fiber-based QKD unconditionally secure at distances over 100km (for some experiments, such as GYS) and increase the key generation rate from O(η2) in prior art to O(η) where η is the overall transmittance. Our method is to develop the decoy state idea (first proposed by W.-Y. Hwang in "Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication", Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 057901 (2003)) and consider simple extensions of the BB84 protocol. This part of work is published in "Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution", . We present a general theory of the decoy state protocol and propose a decoy method based on only one signal state and two decoy states. We perform optimization on the choice of intensities of the signal state and the two decoy states. Our result shows that a decoy state protocol with only two types of decoy states—a vacuum and a weak decoy state—asymptotically approaches the theoretical limit of the most general type of decoy state protocols (with an infinite number of decoy states). We also present a one-decoy-state protocol as a special case of Vacuum+Weak decoy method. Moreover, we provide estimations on the effects of statistical fluctuations and suggest that, even for long distance (larger than 100km) QKD, our two-decoy-state protocol can be implemented with only a few hours of experimental data. In conclusion, decoy state quantum key distribution is highly practical. This part of work is published in "Practical Decoy State for Quantum Key Distribution", . We also have done the first experimental demonstration of decoy state quantum key distribution, over 15km of Telecom fibers. This part of work is published in "Experimental Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution Over 15km", .

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