Bulletin of the American Physical Society
38th Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume 52, Number 7
Tuesday–Saturday, June 5–9, 2007; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Session K1: Poster Session II
4:00 PM,
Thursday, June 7, 2007
TELUS Convention Center
Room: Macleod A, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.DAMOP.K1.7
Abstract: K1.00007 : Towards Fast Quantum Secured Communication
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Authors:
Itzel Lucio Martinez
(student)
Philip Chan
(student)
Steve Hosier
Xiaofan Mo
(Postdoctoral position)
Wolfgang Tittel
(Associate professor)
An ideal implementation of QKD would employ a perfect single photon source which is currently not available. The decoy state protocol uses faint laser pulses with different intensities that allows the two end points to eliminate cryptographic key data created from multi-photon pulses. The remaining cryptographic key data is obtained from single-photon pulses making it absolutely secure. The decoy state protocol increases the distance of transmission and the rate of secret key generation. In this poster we discuss the implementation of a decoy state protocol using polarization encoding in a standard telecommunication fibre Alice generates laser pulses which are then intensity modulated and attenuated to produce either signal or decoy states. Alice then uses phase modulators to create polarization states which she sends, via a fibre link, to Bob. Bob uses polarization beam splitters and single photon detectors to separate and measure the polarization states. The implementation of the decoy state protocol and the advances in single photon detectors expected in the next few years, will result in a significant increase in the achievable raw key rate. It is thus necessary to develop high speed solutions for the classical post-processing required for QKD. To this end, a FPGA implementation of low-density parity-check codes utilizing a set of precomputed codes is being investigated.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2007.DAMOP.K1.7
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