Defending QKD Networks: Routing and Wavelength Assignment to Mitigate Physical-Layer Attacks

Abstract: Quantum key distribution (QKD) supports secret key exchange to enable data exchange with guaranteed security but remains vulnerable to key exchange interruption caused by physical-layer threats, such as high-power jamming attacks. In particular, in a fiber-based QKD network equipped with optical switching capabilities, a high-power jamming signal injected into a single link can be […]

Quantum Rotation Diversity in Displaced Squeezed Binary Phase-Shift Keying

Abstract: We propose a quantum rotation diversity (QRD) scheme for optical quantum communication using binary phase-shift-keying displaced squeezed states and homodyne detection over Gamma–Gamma turbulence channels. Consecutive temporal modes are coupled by a passive orthogonal rotation that redistributes the displacement amplitude between slots, yielding a diversity order of two under independent fading and joint maximum-likelihood […]

Stable Turnkey Laser System for a Yb/Ba Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

This work presents a stable and reliable turnkey continuous-wave laser system for a Yb/Ba multispecies trapped-ion quantum computer. The compact and rack-mountable optics system exhibits high robustness, operating over a year without realignment, regardless of temperature changes in the laboratory. The overall optical system is divided into a few isolated modules interconnected by optical fibers […]