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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 6, 1007(2023)

High-speed integrated QKD system

Rebecka Sax1、*, Alberto Boaron1, Gianluca Boso1,2, Simone Atzeni3,4, Andrea Crespi3,4, Fadri Grünenfelder1, Davide Rusca1, Aws Al-Saadi5, Danilo Bronzi5, Sebastian Kupijai5, Hanjo Rhee5, Roberto Osellame3,4, and Hugo Zbinden1
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  • 1Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
  • 2ID Quantique SA, 1227 Genève, Switzerland
  • 3Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies and NO-IFN, CNR-IFN, 20133 Milano, Italy
  • 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
  • 5Sicoya GmbH, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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    Rebecka Sax, Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso, Simone Atzeni, Andrea Crespi, Fadri Grünenfelder, Davide Rusca, Aws Al-Saadi, Danilo Bronzi, Sebastian Kupijai, Hanjo Rhee, Roberto Osellame, Hugo Zbinden, "High-speed integrated QKD system," Photonics Res. 11, 1007 (2023)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Quantum Optics

    Received: Nov. 18, 2022

    Accepted: Apr. 6, 2023

    Published Online: May. 29, 2023

    The Author Email: Rebecka Sax (rebecka.sax@unige.ch)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.481475

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