Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-06-09
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Volume 36, pp 142
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
10.1007/978-3-642-11731-2_18
To perform Quantum Key Distribution, the mastering of the extremely weak signals carried by the quantum channel is required. Transporting these signals without disturbance is customarily done by isolating the quantum channel from any noise sources using a dedicated physical channel. However, to really profit from this technology, a full integration with conventional network technologies would be highly desirable. Trying to use single photon signals with others that carry an average power many orders of magnitude bigger while sharing as much infrastructure with a conventional network as possible brings obvious problems. The purpose of the present paper is to report our efforts in researching the limits of the integration of QKD in modern optical networks scenarios. We have built a full metropolitan area network testbed comprising a backbone and an access network. The emphasis is put in using as much as possible the same industrial grade technology that is actually used in already installed networks, in order to understand the throughput, limits and cost of deploying QKD in a real network.
Elkouss David
Lancho Daniel
Martin Victorin
Martinez John J.
Soto Mario
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