Polarization-Encoded BB84 QKD Transmitter Sourced by a SiGe Light
Emitter
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17255v1
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:47:44 GMT
- Title: Polarization-Encoded BB84 QKD Transmitter Sourced by a SiGe Light
Emitter
- Authors: Florian Honz (1), Nemanja Vokic (1), Philip Walther (2), Hannes
H\"ubel (1), Bernhard Schrenk (1) ((1) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology,
(2) University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics)
- Abstract summary: We demonstrate a polarization-encoded BB84 transmitter sourced by a SiGe light source.
We show that such a potentially "all-silicon" QKD scheme can operate well below the QBER threshold.
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- Abstract: We demonstrate a polarization-encoded BB84 transmitter sourced by a SiGe
light source and show that such a potentially "all-silicon" QKD scheme can
operate well below the QBER threshold at which secret keys can be established.
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