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The physical effects such as random birefringence of fiber optic channels due to environmental influences make the optical signals transmitted in them have sensitive polarization variations, which seriously affects the performance of polarization biased code quantum key distribution systems. In this paper, a low-noise fiber channel wavelength division multiplexing real-time polarization compensation system is presented, where single photon counting is used as a feedback signal. The system can acquire the fiber channel polarization change information by detecting the photon counting of the conjugate reference light. In the system, the compensation algorithm is designed to control the electric polarization controller to calibrate the polarization state of the quantum signal light under the corresponding polarization base in real time, and the stable fiber channel polarization compensation is successfully achieved. In order to verify the effectiveness of the compensation system, a quantum key distribution test based on BB84 protocol with a transmission distance of 25.2 km is conducted, and stable test results of up to 8 hours are obtained in the laboratory environment and the simulated metropolitan area network buried fiber environment, with the average quantum bit error rate being 0.52% and 1.25%, respectively. The experimental results show that this system can guarantee the stable operation of polarization-encoded quantum key distribution in the buried fiber environment in urban areas.
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Keywords:
- quantum key distribution /
- polarization compensation /
- wavelength division multiplexing /
- buried fiber optic
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图 1 SOP在邦加球上的补偿过程示意图
Figure 1. Compensation process of SOP on Poincaré sphere.
图 2 低噪声光纤信道WDM实时偏振补偿系统示意图
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of low noise fiber channel WDM real-time polarization compensation system.
图 3 偏振补偿程序流程图
Figure 3. Flow chart of polarization compensation program.
图 4 偏振补偿模块未启动时量子信号光
$ \left| H \right\rangle $ 偏振变化引起QBER变化情况 (a) 测试90 min无扰偏器时QBER变化情况; (b) 测试10 min有扰偏器时QBER变化情况Figure 4. QBER variation of quantum signal caused by polarization drift without compensation: (a) QBER variation in 90 minutes without scrambler; (b) QBER variation in 10 minutes with scrambler.
图 5 运行补偿程序时量子信号光的4种偏振态QBER的变化 (a) 量子信号光
$ \left| H \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (b) 量子信号光$ \left| V \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (c) 量子信号光$ \left| + \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (d) 量子信号光$ \left| - \right\rangle $ QBER的变化Figure 5. QBER variation of quantum signal in four polarization states when running the compensation program: (a) QBER variation of quantum signal in
$ \left| H \right\rangle $ ; (b) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| V \right\rangle $ ; (c) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| + \right\rangle $ ; (d) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| - \right\rangle $ .
图 6 启动扰偏器后运行补偿程序时量子信号光的4种偏振态QBER变化 (a) 量子信号光
$ \left| H \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (b) 量子信号光$ \left| V \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (c) 量子信号光$ \left| + \right\rangle $ QBER的变化; (d) 量子信号光$ \left| - \right\rangle $ QBER的变化Figure 6. QBER variation of the quantum signal in four polarization states after starting the scrambler and running the compensation program: (a) QBER variation of quantum signal in
$ \left| H \right\rangle $ ; (b) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| V \right\rangle $ ; (c) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| + \right\rangle $ ; (d) QBER variation of quantum signal in$ \left| - \right\rangle $ . -
[1] Gisin N, Ribordy G, Tittel W, Zbinden H 2001 Rev. mod. phys. 74 145
[2] Scarani V, Bechmann P H, Cerf N J, Dušek M, Lütkenhaus N, Peev M 2009 Rev. Mod. Phys. 81 1301
Google Scholar
[3] Bennett C H, Brassard G 1984 IEEE International Conference on Computers New York 198 4
[4] Wang J D, Qin X J, Jiang Y Z, Wang X J, Chen L W, Zhao F, Wei Z J, Zhang Z M 2016 Opt. Express 24 8302
Google Scholar
[5] Liu X B, Liao C J, Mi J L, Wang J D, Liu S H 2008 Phys. Lett. A. 373 54
Google Scholar
[6] Wang S, Wei C, Yin Z Q, He D Y, Cong H, Hao P L, Guan-Jie F Y, Wang C, Zhang L J, Jie K, Liu S F, Zhou Z, Wang Y G, Guo G C, Han Z F 2018 Opt. Lett. 43 2030
Google Scholar
[7] Zhu L, Zhu G X, Wang A D, Wang L L, Ai J Z, Chen S, Du C, Liu J, Yu S Y, Wang J 2018 Opt. Lett. 43 1890
Google Scholar
[8] Boucher W, Debuisschert T 2006 Phys. Rev. A 72 1
[9] Bennett C H, Bessette F, Brassard G, Salvail L, Smolin J 1992 J. Cryptol. 5 3
Google Scholar
[10] Heffner B L 1992 IEEE Photon. Tech. L. 4 1066
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[13] Chen J, Wu G, Li Y, Wu E, Zeng H P 2007 Opt. Express 15 17928
Google Scholar
[14] Chen J, Wu G, Xu L, Gu X, Zeng H P 2009 New J. Phys. 11 065004
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[18] Ding Y Y, Chen W, Chen H, Wang C, Li Y P, Yin Z Q, Wang S, Guo G C, Han Z F 2017 Opt. Lett. 42 1023
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[21] 廖延彪 2003 偏振光学 (北京: 科学出版社) 第45页
Liao Y B 2003 Polarization Optics (Beijing: Science Press) p45 (in Chinese)
[22] 张启业, 朱勇, 苏洋, 周 华, 经继松 2013 光学学报 33 23
Zhang Q Y, Zhu Y, Su Y, Zhou H, Jing J S 2013 Acta Opt. Sin. 33 23
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Wang J, Zhu Y, Zhou H, Su Y, Zhang Z Y 2015 Acta Opt. Sin. 35 76
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Google Scholar
[25] 周华, 蒲涛, 苏洋, 徐智勇, 沈荟萍, 赵继勇, 王艺敏, 吴传信 2017 2017量子信息技术与应用研讨会论文集 中国北京 2017年6月15—16日 第68页
Zhou H, Pu T, Su Y, Xu Z Y, Shen H P, Zhao J Y, Wang Y M, Wu C X 2017 2017 Quantum Information Technology and Application Symposium proceedings Beijing China June 15–16, 2017 p68 (in Chinese)
[26] Xi L X, Zhang X G, Tang X F, Weng X A, Tian F 2010 Chin. Opt. Lett. 8 804
Google Scholar
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