• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 14, Issue 6, 060602 (2016)
Yongmei Sun*, Yishan Lu, Jianing Niu, and Yuefeng Ji
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  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201614.060602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yongmei Sun, Yishan Lu, Jianing Niu, Yuefeng Ji. Reduction of FWM noise in WDM-based QKD systems using interleaved and unequally spaced channels[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(6): 060602 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To extensively deploy quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, copropagating with classical channels on the same fiber using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology becomes a critical issue. We propose a user-based channel-interleaving WDM scheme with unequal frequency spacing (UFS-iWDM) to reduce the impairment on the quantum channels induced by four-wave mixing (FWM), and theoretically analyze its impact on quantum bit error rate (QBER). Numerical simulation results show that a UFS-iWDM can significantly reduce the FWM noise and improve QBER compared with the corresponding WDM scheme with equal frequency spacing (EFS), especially in the case of nonzero dispersion shifted fiber.
    fijk=fi+fjfk.(1)

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    Pijk=ηD2γ2PiPjPkeαz9α2[1eαz]2,(2)

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    η=α2α2+Δβ2{1+4eαzsin2(ΔβZ2)[1eαz]2},(3)

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    Δβ=βijk+βkβiβj,(4)

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    QBER=1V2Rsift+12(Rdc+Rct+RFWM)Rsift+Rdc+(Rct+RFWM),(5)

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    Rsift=qδfrepμηspd×100.1(αz+A0+Ad),(6)

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    Rdc=2qfrepPdark,(7)

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    Rct=qδPctλhcfrepΔτgateηspd×100.1(αz+A0+Is),(8)

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    RFWM=qδPFWMλhcfrepΔτgateηspd×100.1(A0+Ad),(9)

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    Yongmei Sun, Yishan Lu, Jianing Niu, Yuefeng Ji. Reduction of FWM noise in WDM-based QKD systems using interleaved and unequally spaced channels[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(6): 060602
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