Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2005-01-14
Physics
Quantum Physics
Version 2: Some errors have been corrected and arguments refined. To appear in Physical Review A. Version 3: Minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.062326
We demonstrate high-rate randomized data-encryption through optical fibers using the inherent quantum-measurement noise of coherent states of light. Specifically, we demonstrate 650Mbps data encryption through a 10Gbps data-bearing, in-line amplified 200km-long line. In our protocol, legitimate users (who share a short secret-key) communicate using an M-ry signal set while an attacker (who does not share the secret key) is forced to contend with the fundamental and irreducible quantum-measurement noise of coherent states. Implementations of our protocol using both polarization-encoded signal sets as well as polarization-insensitive phase-keyed signal sets are experimentally and theoretically evaluated. Different from the performance criteria for the cryptographic objective of key generation (quantum key-generation), one possible set of performance criteria for the cryptographic objective of data encryption is established and carefully considered.
Corndorf Eric
Kanter Gerg S.
Kumar Prem
Liang Chuang
Yuen Horace P.
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