Optics letters
Enabling shortwave-QKD in short-reach networks: impact of a composite ODN native to telecom applications.
Mariana F Ramos, Costin Luchian, Michael Hentschel, Florian Honz, Marie-Christine Slater, Hannes Hübel, Bernhard Schrenk
Published: 202510.1364/OL.574096
Abstract
We deploy shortwave-QKD over short-reach in-house/datacom architectures and show that few-mode propagation and speckle-selective loss severely impact the QKD performance. We accomplish 12 kb/s secure-key generation in the presence of 50 co-existing d…
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