Continuous-variable quantum key distribution with on-chip light sources

Lang Li; Tao Wang; Xinhang Li; Peng Huang; Yuyao Guo; Liangjun Lu; Linjie Zhou; Guihua Zeng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.473328

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 4, 504(2023)

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution with on-chip light sources On the Cover

Lang Li^1,2、†, Tao Wang^{1,2,5、†,*}, Xinhang Li^3、†, Peng Huang^1,2, Yuyao Guo³, Liangjun Lu^3,4,6、*, Linjie Zhou^3,4, and Guihua Zeng^1,2,7、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Center for Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

³State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location Services, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁴SJTU-Pinghu Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronics, Pinghu 314200, China

⁵e-mail: tonystar@sjtu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: luliangjun@sjtu.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: ghzeng@sjtu.edu.cn

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Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Aug. 16, 2022

Accepted: Jan. 10, 2023

Published Online: Mar. 9, 2023

The Author Email: Tao Wang (tonystar@sjtu.edu.cn), Liangjun Lu (luliangjun@sjtu.edu.cn), Guihua Zeng (ghzeng@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.473328

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