Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-08-27
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 21, 575 (2009)
Physics
Quantum Physics
3 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
Quantum key distribution (QKD) network has recently attracted growing attentions. Due to the special characteristics of quantum information, to build a full-connectivity QKD network without trusted relays is a stimulating challenge. In this letter, we report on the first realization of QKD network without trusted relays which covers metropolis in the commercial backbone optical fiber networks. The star topology four-user QKD network automatically addresses the quantum signal with a quantum router (QR) and every user in the network can receive and distribute quantum keys to any others simultaneously. The longest and the shortest length of fibers between two geographically separated nodes are 42.6km and 32km respectively, and the maximum average quantum bit error rate (QBER) is below 8%. This result opens a new possibility for the use of QKD into existing network.
Chen Wei
Gui You-Z
Guo Guang-C
Han Zheng-F
Mo Xiao-F
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