• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 17, Issue 10, 592 (2021)
Jin YOU1、2, Yue WANG1、*, and Junming AN1、2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • 2College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-021-0203-6 Cite this Article
    YOU Jin, WANG Yue, AN Junming. Balanced pulses in two outputs of quantum photonic chip[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2021, 17(10): 592 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Silica planar lightwave circuit (PLC) devices can offer great potential for quantum key distribution (QKD) with benefits of low-loss, low-cost, large-scale integration, miniaturization, stability and mass production. A complementary encoding-decoding system for QKD based on silica PLC technology was demonstrated, achieving two channels that have balanced outputs simultaneously. This system is consisted of two chips, and each chip is consisted of a variable optical splitter (VOS), an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) with a thermo-optic phase modulator (TOPM), a delay line (DL), and a directional coupler (DC). The measured delay times of pulse-pairs for two chips are 396 ps and 398 ps, respectively, and the system has shown relatively high interference visibility (IV) of 93.5% and 91.3% for two channels, respectively.
    YOU Jin, WANG Yue, AN Junming. Balanced pulses in two outputs of quantum photonic chip[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2021, 17(10): 592
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