Two High-Dimensional Cartesian Bases for Quantum Key Distribution

Tristan Bernhard Horst Tentrup; Willemijn Luiten; Peter Hooijschuur; Reinier  van der Meer; Pepijn W.H. Pinkse

doi:10.1109/WIO.2017.8038181

Two High-Dimensional Cartesian Bases for Quantum Key Distribution

Tristan Bernhard Horst Tentrup, Willemijn Luiten, Peter Hooijschuur, Reinier van der Meer, Pepijn W.H. Pinkse

Complex Photonic Systems

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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) provides a secure way of generating shared cryptographic keys between a sender (Alice) and a receiver (Bob). The original BB84 protocol uses a two-dimensional polarization basis, limiting the information content of a single photon to 1 bit. Using the transverse position of single photons as one basis and the Fourier space as a second basis, one can construct a pair of mutually unbiased higher-dimensional bases. This improves not only the security of the protocol, but also the key generation rate. We present experimental results with a Spatial-Light-Modulator-based encoding scheme employing two nearly orthogonal alphabets with on the order of 103 symbols each and an information content of about 10 bit.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 16th Workshop on Information Optics (WIO)
Place of Publication	2017
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WIO.2017.8038181 https://doi.org/10.1109/WIO.2017.8038181
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2017
Event	Workshop on Information optics (WIO) 2017 - Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 7 Jul 2017 http://wio2017.epfl.ch

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Conference	Workshop on Information optics (WIO) 2017
Abbreviated title	WIO
Period	3/07/17 → 7/07/17
Internet address	http://wio2017.epfl.ch

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Quantum Key Distribution with a High Number of Spatial Degrees of Freedom
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