Characterising higher-order phase correlations in gain-switched laser sources with application to quantum key distribution
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| author | Marcomini, Alessandro Currás-Lorenzo, Guillermo Rusca, Davide Valle, Angel Tamaki, Kiyoshi Curty, Marcos |
| author_facet | Marcomini, Alessandro Currás-Lorenzo, Guillermo Rusca, Davide Valle, Angel Tamaki, Kiyoshi Curty, Marcos |
| contents | Multi-photon emissions in laser sources represent a serious threat for the security of quantum key distribution (QKD). While the decoy-state technique allows to solve this problem, it requires uniform phase randomisation of the emitted pulses. However, gain-switched lasers operating at high repetition rates do not fully satisfy this requirement, as residual photons in the laser cavity introduce correlations between the phases of consecutive pulses. Here, we introduce experimental schemes to characterise the phase probability distribution of the emitted pulses, and demonstrate that an optimisation task over interferometric measures suffices in determining the impact of arbitrary order correlations, which ultimately establishes the security level of the implementation according to recent security proofs. We expect that our findings may find usages beyond QKD as well. |
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| spellingShingle | Characterising higher-order phase correlations in gain-switched laser sources with application to quantum key distribution Marcomini, Alessandro Currás-Lorenzo, Guillermo Rusca, Davide Valle, Angel Tamaki, Kiyoshi Curty, Marcos Quantum Physics Multi-photon emissions in laser sources represent a serious threat for the security of quantum key distribution (QKD). While the decoy-state technique allows to solve this problem, it requires uniform phase randomisation of the emitted pulses. However, gain-switched lasers operating at high repetition rates do not fully satisfy this requirement, as residual photons in the laser cavity introduce correlations between the phases of consecutive pulses. Here, we introduce experimental schemes to characterise the phase probability distribution of the emitted pulses, and demonstrate that an optimisation task over interferometric measures suffices in determining the impact of arbitrary order correlations, which ultimately establishes the security level of the implementation according to recent security proofs. We expect that our findings may find usages beyond QKD as well. |
| title | Characterising higher-order phase correlations in gain-switched laser sources with application to quantum key distribution |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03738 |