Energy-time Entanglement Coexisting with Fiber Optical Communication at Telecom C-band

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18696v1
• Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 02:41:06 GMT
• Title: Energy-time Entanglement Coexisting with Fiber Optical Communication at Telecom C-band
• Authors: Yun-Ru Fan, Yue Luo, Zi-Chang Zhang, Yun-Bo Li, Sheng Liu, Dong Wang, Dechao Zhang, Guang-Wei Deng, You Wang, Hai-Zhi Song, Zhen Wang, Li-Xing You, Chen-Zhi Yuan, Guang-Can Guo, and Qiang Zhou
• Abstract summary: coexistence of quantum and classical light in the same fiber link is extremely desired in developing quantum communication. We demonstrate the coexistence of energy-time entanglement based QKD and fiber optical communication at the telecom C-band.
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• Abstract: The coexistence of quantum and classical light in the same fiber link is extremely desired in developing quantum communication. It has been implemented for different quantum information tasks, such as classical light coexisting with polarization-entangled photons at telecom O-band, and with quantum signal based quantum key distribution (QKD). In this work, we demonstrate the coexistence of energy-time entanglement based QKD and fiber optical communication at the telecom C-band. The property of noise from the classical channel is characterized with classical light at different wavelengths. With the largest noise, i.e., the worst case, the properties of energy-time entanglement are measured at different fiber optical communication rates. By measuring the two-photon interference of energy-time entanglement, our results show that a visibility of 82.01$\pm$1.10\% is achieved with a bidirectional 20 Gbps fiber optical communication over 40 km. Furthermore, by performing the BBM92 protocol for QKD, a secret key rate of 245 bits per second could be generated with a quantum bit error rate of 8.88\% with the coexisted energy-time entanglement.~Our demonstration paves the way for developing the infrastructure for quantum networks compatible with fiber optical communication.

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