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September 28, 2020

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Feasibility of higher key rate continuous variable quantum key distribution with multi-mode signals

R. Kumar and T. Spiller, “Feasibility of higher key rate continuous variable quantum key distribution with multi-mode signals,” 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bari, Italy, 2020, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203028.

This paper examines the feasibility of multi-mode Gaussian modulated continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) systems for higher rate secure key generation at longer distances. We consider different multi-mode transmission scenarios and propose a feasible experimental set-up for a previously proposed multi-mode CV-QKD system with joint quadrature measurement [1]. We compare signal to noise ratios (SNR) of multi-mode schemes and show many fold improvements in the joint quadrature detection based CV-QKD system.

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