无噪线性放大的连续变量量子隐形传态

连续变量量子隐形传态在实际的量子通信中起着至关重要的作用.然而,实际环境的噪声与损耗会导致量子纠缠的退化,极大地影响系统的传输性能,尤其是降低系统的传输距离,阻碍其实际应用.本文提出了无噪线性放大的连续变量量子隐形传态方案,利用无噪线性放大器对退化的纠缠源进行放大,从而补偿光纤损耗信道对纠缠源的衰减影响,提升系统的性能.本文详细分析了不同损耗信道和纠缠源情况下,无噪线性放大器的增益系数选取范围以及不同增益对方案性能的影响.仿真结果表明,本文提出的方案相比于原方案,在保真度和传输距离方面都有较大的提升.该研究结果为长距离连续变量量子隐形传态的实际应用提供了一种切实有效的方法.     

基于量子催化的离散调制连续变量量子密钥分发

相比于离散变量量子密钥分发,连续变量量子密钥分发虽然具备更高的安全码率等优势,但是在安全传输距离上却略有不足.尽管量子催化的运用对高斯调制连续变量量子密钥分发协议的性能,尤其在安全传输距离方面有着显著的提升,然而能否用来改善离散调制协议的性能却仍然未知.鉴于上述分析,本文提出了一种基于量子催化的离散调制协议的方案,试图在安全密钥率、安全传输距离和最大可容忍过噪声方面进一步提升协议性能.研究结果表明,在相同参数下,当优化量子催化引入的透射率T,相比于原始四态调制协议,所提方案能够有效地提升量子密钥分发的性能.特别是,对于可容忍过噪声为0.002,量子催化可将安全通信距离突破300 km,密钥率为10^-8bits/pulse,而过大的可容忍噪声会抑制量子催化对协议性能的改善效果.此外,为了彰显量子催化的优势,本文给出了点对点量子通信的最终极限Pirandola-Laurenza-Ottaviani-Banchi边界,仿真结果表明,虽然原始方案与所提方案都未能突破这种边界,但是相比于前者,后者能够在远距离通信上逼近于这种边界,这为实现全球量子安全通信的最终目标提供理论依据.     

基于光前置放大器的量子密钥分发融合经典通信方案

量子密钥分发融合经典通信方案将连续变量量子密钥分发和经典通信合并到了一起,为将来在现有的光网络上同时进行密钥分发和经典通信提供了一个有效的方法.然而,在量子信号上叠加一个经典信号将会给连续变量量子密钥分发系统引入过噪声从而大大降低系统的性能.本文提出基于光前置放大器的量子密钥分发融合经典通信方案,即在接收端插入光前置放大器来提升系统的性能.首先,在相同比特误码率条件下,光前置放大器对信号的放大能够降低对发送端经典信号调制振幅的要求,从而降低经典信号对量子信号的噪声影响;其次,光前置放大器能够补偿接收端探测器的不完美;再次,对于本地本振光的情形,放大器还能放大弱相位参考脉冲,从而降低参考脉冲散粒噪声带来的相位过噪声.在实际可达到的系统参数下,数值仿真结果表明本文提出的方案相比于原方案在安全密钥率和传输距离上都有很好的提升.这些结果表明本方案为量子密钥分发融合经典通信方案的进一步发展和实际应用提供了一个十分有效而实用的方法.     

基于硬件同步的四态离散调制连续变量量子密钥分发

在连续变量量子密钥分发系统中,同步技术是确保通信双方时钟和数据一致的关键技术.本文通过巧妙设计发送端和接收端仪器的硬件时序,采用时域差拍探测方式和峰值采集技术,实验实现了可硬件同步的四态离散调制连续变量量子密钥分发.通信双方在设计好的硬件同步时序下可实现时钟的恢复和数据的自动对齐,无需借助软件算法实现数据的对齐.本文采用了加拿大滑铁卢大学Norbert Lütkenhaus研究组提出的针对连续变量离散调制协议的安全密钥速率计算方法.该方法需计算出接收端所测各种平移热态的一阶矩和二阶(非中心)矩,以此为约束条件结合凸优化算法可计算出安全密钥速率.计算过程中无需假设信道为线性信道,无需额外噪声的估算.密钥分发系统重复频率为10 MHz,传输距离为25 km,平均安全密钥比特率为24 kbit/s.本文提出的硬件同步方法无需过采样和软件帧同步,减小了系统的复杂度和计算量,在一定程度上降低了系统所需的成本、功耗和体积,有效地增强了连续变量量子密钥分发的实用性.     

基于FPGA的高速CVQKD系统方案

高速的安全量子密钥传输对于实际应用有很大的意义,本文从提高密钥分发的速率为出发点,提出一种基于FPGA的高速连续变量量子密钥分发的解决方案。从而有望使安全密钥分发的速率在长距离传输下达到Mbps数量级。     

基于双边类型低密度奇偶校验码的连续变量量子密钥分发多维数据协调

在连续变量量子密钥分发(CVQKD)多维数据协调过程中,低密度奇偶校验码(LDPC)的纠错性能直接影响协调效率和传输距离。构造了一种双边类型的低密度奇偶校验码(TET-LDPC),引入了类似于重复累积码中的累积结构以提高其纠错性能,在多维数据协调算法中得到了更小的收敛信噪比、更高的协调效率以及更远的传输距离。仿真结果表明:当TET-LDPC的码率为0.5,分组码长为2×10~5时,收敛信噪比降至1.02dB,协调效率达到了98.58%,安全密钥率达到17.61kb/s,CVQKD系统的传输距离提高为44.9km。     

基于PEG算法的连续变量量子密钥分发多维数据协调

针对连续变量量子密钥分发系统数据协调过程中效率偏低而造成的密钥量不易提取的问题,本文引入PEG(Progressive-edge-growth)算法构造合适度分布的LDPC校验矩阵,译码时采用LLR-BP译码算法。仿真结果表明,相同度分布下PEG方法构造出的校验矩阵比传统Mackay方法构造出的校验矩阵在译码时,能够更快达到收敛,并且在码率为0.5,码长为10~5时,PEG协调方案协调效率达到93.4%,提取到的安全密钥量为5.41 kb/s,信息传输距离为44.5 km。     

连续变量量子密钥分发多维数据协调算法

数据协调是量子密钥分发的重要组成部分,特别是连续变量量子密钥分发远程化的关键环节。在Leverrier等关于多维协调安全性证明的基础上,给出了面向多维协调的低密度奇偶校验码(LDPC)错误校正算法,考查了该算法的最小收敛信噪比阈值,并估算出基于这种多维数据协调方案的量子密钥分发的最大密钥传输距离,经过协调效率的计算以及噪声分析估算出最大安全密钥量。算法仿真结果表明:Alice和Bob之间的传输距离与分层错误校正协议(SEC)相比,从30km增加到47km左右,译码速度是SEC的4倍左右,密钥传输速率可以达到8.61kb/s。     

双协议量子密钥分发系统实验研究

提出了一种改进的基于时间和相位混合编码的量子密钥分发方案, 并进行了实验研究.在以BB84协议为基础的相位编码量子密钥分发系统上, 利用了系统中原来舍弃的脉冲进行时间编码, 使成码率提高为原方案的二倍. 系统同时获得时间编码密钥和相位编码密钥, 现在可以将两组密钥组合成新密钥, 提高了成码率和监测窃听灵敏度. 同时在系统的接收端用双FM反射式干涉仪代替传统的光纤M-Z干涉仪,提高了系统的稳定性. 实验上已实现90km光纤量子密钥分发, 实验表明本系统具有安全性高,稳定性好,成本低的优点. 关键词： 量子保密通信 量子密钥分发 相位编码 时间编码     

基于正交频分复用的连续变量量子密钥分发方案

正交频分复用技术已被广泛应用于量子密钥分发系统研究中,在此提出了基于正交频分复用的连续变量量子密钥分发方案,连续变量量子密钥分发过程中发送方以快速傅立叶反变换调制复用子载波,接收方以快速傅立叶变换得到原始频域子载波,并由系统协方差矩阵性能刻画出传输性能。仿真结果显示:正交频分复用技术能够提高连续变量量子密钥分发系统的传输密钥率。     

Improving Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Using the Heralded Noiseless Linear Amplifier with Source in the Middle

We characterize the efficiency of the practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) while inserting the heralded noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) before detectors to increase the secret key rate and the maximum transmission distance in Gaussian channels. In the heralded NLA-based CVQKD system, the entanglement source is only placed in the middle while the two participants are unnecessary to trust their source. The intensities of source noise are sensitive to the tunable NLA with the parameter g in a suitable range and can be stabilized to the suitable constant values to eliminate the impact of channel noise and defeat the potential attacks. Simulation results show that there is a well balance between the secret key rate and the maximum transmission distance with the tunable NLA.     

Practical Analysis of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Using a Nondeterministic Noiseless Linear Amplifier

We study the impact of the imperfections and the finite-size effect on the continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) protocol with the nondeterministic noiseless linear amplifier (NLA). The imperfections of the homodyne detector and the imperfect amplification process as well as the finite-size effect on parameter estimation procedure are considered. We can see that despite the imperfections of the homodyne detector, the maximum improved transmission distance can still reach the equivalence of 20log₁₀g dB losses theoretically. Moreover, the analysis shows the imperfect amplification process of the NLA will slightly decrease the performance of the system. And we find the finite-size effect significantly influence the secret key rates of the NLA CVQKD protocol and the performance will approach the ideal asymptotic case with the increase of block size.     

Performance comparison of pre-, post- and symmetrical-dispersion compensation techniques using DCF on 40 Gbps OTDM system for different fibre standards

Various factors like polarization mode dispersion, non-linear effects, Kerr effect, second and third order dispersion impose limit on the performance (transmission distance, pulse broadening) of Optical Time Division Multiplexed (OTDM) transmission system. In this paper, the performance comparison of 40 Gbps OTDM transmission system with pre-, post-, and symmetrical-dispersion compensation techniques for different fibre standards has been carried out. It has been observed that for pre compensation, ITU 655 [D = 3.78 ps/nm/km] came to be best suitable fibre with the dispersion compensating fibre length of 2.36 km for maximum reach of 3000 km. For post- and symmetrical-compensation, the behaviour of alcatel [D = 8 ps/nm/km] is almost similar with maximum transmission distance of 3200 and 3050 km respectively.     

Numerical simulation on the operational characteristics of the pulsed inductive acceleration

To analyse the ionization and acceleration properties of an inductive plasma excited by a pulsed current flowing through the planar coil, the extended GLM formulations of the MHD (EGLM‐MHD) model, combined with the high‐temperature thermodynamic and transport model, is employed to simulate the characteristics of the flow. The two‐dimensional axisymmetric calculation captures the generation, growth, and acceleration of the current sheet, and the process is completed in the first half period. The sheet is mainly comprised of lower ionization level ions in the front and higher level ions at the back, and the density is one order higher than that of the residual plasma on the coil surface. As the abscissa value of the sheet is larger than the decoupling distance, a reversed flow emerges, generating a backward impulse, and the negative velocity can be more than 15 km/s at peak intensity B₀ = 0.5 T. In the second 1/4 period, the magnetic field and current density distribute non‐linearly on the surface and regularly in the sheet, caused by the reversing of the changing rate of the magnetic field and the particles' radial diffusion. The results at different intensities show that, for the same coil size, the time at which the maximum velocity V_max appears is advanced as the intensity increases, and V_max can be greater than 20 km/s above 0.5 T.     

Performance improvement by positioning DCF non-symmetrically in a periodic amplified re-circulating loop for long-haul optical soliton transmission link

In this paper, we have carried out simulative performance analysis by positioning the DCF non-symmetrically in a periodic amplified re-circulating loop for optical soliton transmission link over a long haul. The investigations indicate that relatively stable pulses can propagate in a mid-compensated optical soliton transmission over a long-haul dispersion-managed soliton regime in a fiber link with loss and periodic amplification by keeping the average dispersion small but non-zero. Here non-zero anomalous fiber dispersion equal to 6 ps/nm is maintained by inserting DCF in the beginning, middle and end of the fiber loop. Here it is demonstrated that solitons can propagate even when β₂ varies along the fiber length up to transmission distance of 18,000 km.     

诱惑态量子密钥分配系统中统计涨落的研究

针对实用的量子密钥分配(QKD)系统是基于强衰减的弱激光脉冲作为单光子源, 光子数分束攻击极大限制了通信双方在非理想条件下QKD的传输距离和密钥生成率,采用大数定律对诱惑态协议中单光子的计数率、单光子增益和误码率分别进行统计涨落分析, 利用双诱惑态比较了1310 nm和1550 nm条件下,编码脉冲的长度为(N = 10⁶-N = 10¹²)实际QKD协议中密钥的生成率与安全传输距离之间的关系、安全传输距离随编码长度的变化的关系, 得出脉冲编码长度增大到N = 10¹²时,密钥的最大安全传输距离为135 km.     

Parametric down-conversion with local operation and two-way classical communication

The decoy-state quantum key distribution protocol suggested by Adachi et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 180503 (2007)) is proven to be secure and feasible with current techniques. It owns two attractive merits,i.e.,its longer secure transmission distance and more convenient operation design. In this paper,we first improve the protocol with the aid of local operation and two-way classical communication (2-LOCC). After our modifications,the secure transmission distance is increased by about 20 km,which will make the protocol more practicable.     

Performance Analysis of Duty-Cycle Division Multiplexing over Wavelength Division Multiplexing System

Abstract

Performance optimization of a duty-cycle division multiplexing system over 8- and 40-channel wavelength division multiplexing networks is reported in this article. The modified duty-cycle division multiplexing system with optical domain multiplexing using a dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator is simulated with two and three users per wavelength. Using conventional dispersion compensation, the 40 × 40-Gbps system with two and three users per channel can support 240 and 160 km of transmission distance, respectively. The dispersion management technique based on a chirped fiber Bragg grating is proposed for a 40 × 3 × 13.33-Gbps duty-cycle division multiplexing/wavelength division multiplexing system that allows double the transmission distance compared to conventional technique.     

Minimization of Cross-Gain Saturation in Wavelength Division Multiplexing by Optimizing Differential Gain in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

We successfully simulated the 10 × 40 Gbit/s soliton RZ-DPSK WDM signals over 1050 km with spectral efficiency approaching 0.4 bit/s/Hz using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) as in-line amplifier. The cross-gain saturation of SOA can be minimized by settling crosstalk at a lower level by decreasing the differential gain. This decrease in differential gain is in such a way that we get nil power penalty. The maximum transmission distance of 1050 km is possible with differential gain 210 atto cm² of SOA.

The impact of amplification factor, ASE noise power, crosstalk, quality factor and bit error rate for different differential gain has been investigated. It has been shown that with the increase in differential gain of SOA, the transmission distance goes on decreasing. At high value of differential gain 2.5 × 10^-16 cm² for the transmission distance 1050 km, all channels produce inter channel crosstalk with bit error rate greater than 10^-6. But for lower differential gain 190 atto cm², the quality of all channel increases at the cost of large power penalty.

With slight increase in differential gain 200 atto cm², the maximum transmission distance observed is 4550 km with quality of received signal more than 15 dB and having nil power penalty. We observed clear eye diagrams and optical power spectra for received signal with transmission distance 1050 km and 4550 km using soliton RZ-DPSK system. The bit error rate for all channels increase more than 10^-10 with the increase in launched input power that is due to power saturation.     

厄米-高斯光束在非Kolmogorov大气湍流中的传输性质

基于广义惠更斯-菲涅尔原理和非Kolmogorov(非K)谱,推导出了厄米-高斯光束在非K大气湍流中传输的束宽、角扩展以及M²因子的解析表达式.数值计算表明,在传输距离比较远(如z≥3 km)时,厄米-高斯光束的束宽、角扩展和M²因子随广义指数参量α的增大而增加直到α=3.11时达到最大值后再随α的增大而减小;随湍流的内尺度l₀的减小而增大;随外尺度l₀的增加而增大(3.6<α<4).但是当广义指数参量α在3<α<3.6区间取值时,束宽和M²因子几乎不随外尺度的增加而变化.