YANG Yang, WANG Yong-gang, CHEN Wei, et al. Design of Electronics for Phase Coding QKD System[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2011, 39(11): 2604-2609.
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YANG Yang, WANG Yong-gang, CHEN Wei, et al. Design of Electronics for Phase Coding QKD System[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2011, 39(11): 2604-2609.DOI:
Phase coding is frequently used in current quantum key distribution(QKD) systems.It has posed many technical challenges on the design of the control electronics.After the description to the overall design of our phase coding QKD system
the paper focuses on the special requirements and implementations on the synchronizing mechanism and automatic phase drift scanning and compensation.The electronics designed in this paper combining with the optical devices can be an independent node device of a QKD network.We have successfully used these node devices to build a practical encrypted communication system through the commercial communication optical fiber system of Wuhu Telecom in Anhui Province.Encrypted communication between multiple nodes by quantum cryptography is implemented in this system.The QKD system in the network actualizes BB84 phase coding protocol at 20MHz repetition rate of light pulses.It achieves quantum bit error rate(QBER)2.95% and secure key generation rate 4.91kbps with a 20km transmission distance.