Phase modulation polarization encoding module applied to one-to-many QKD network based on wavelength division multiplexing

Yi Zhang; Xiaojuan Qin; Jindong Wang; Yafei Yu; Zhengjun Wei; Zhiming Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202220.122701

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