Free space daylight ground-ground QKD in the near-IR

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Tepper, Jan; Hellerhoff, Nils; Comin, Alberto

Abstract:
We report a daylight km-range free space QKD demonstration at 850nm obtaining a QBER of 1.9% and a raw key-rate of 14 kbit/s. We used the BB84 protocol with polarisation encoding and two supporting optical beams for classical communication and clock synchronisation.