Practical Free-Space QKD under Night- and Day-time over a 0.5 km Metropolitan Link
A practical Free-Space polarization-encoded QKD system with Low-Cost Optical Terminals is presented, operating over a 0.5 km urban link, achieving <6% QBER and SKRs up to 1.3 kbps in nighttime and daytime conditions.
Authors
- Argiris Ntanos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0142-5831)
- Nikolaos K. Lyras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-8185)
- Aristeidis Stathis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-7122)
- Panagiotis Toumasis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6378-8232)
- H. Avramopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8793-2262)
- Giannis Giannoulis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5825-5597)
- Evridiki Kyriazi
- Panagiotis Kourelias
Institutions
- National Technical University of Athens (GR)
- European Space Research and Technology Centre (NL)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1364/quantum.2025.qw3a.27
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.73