自由空间量子密钥分配系统中接收端设计改进 .pdfVIP

学兔兔 第31卷 第1O期 仪 器 仪 表 学 报 Vo1．3l No．10 2010年10月 Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument 0ct．2010 自由空间量子密钥分配系统中接收端设计改进 吴建荣，朱 冰 (中国科学技术大学电子工程与信息科学系 合肥 230027) 摘 要：对自由空间量子密钥分配系统中接收端设计进行改进研究。采用琼斯矩阵方法分析了系统误码率和接收端光学元件 光学特性的关系。分析表明，用来随机选择测量基的器件——偏振无关分束器(NPBS)的偏振相移特性的误差是系统误码的重 要来源。提出对光路布置的设计改进方案，在这一方案中，只对NPBS的透射P光与S光的相移差有性能要求，町以降低接收端 NPBS的偏振相移误差对误码率的影响。采用改进后的NPBS和普通商品NPBS进行了室外200 m量子密钥分配的对比实验。 实验结果与理论预期符合基本一致，改进NPBS的设计及接收端光学系统的光路布置使系统误码率降低了2．6％，证明了对接 收端设计方案改进的有效性。 关键词：量子密钥分配；误码率；偏振无关分束器 中图分类号：TN918 文献标识码：A 国家标准学科分类代码：460．4035 Improved design for the receiver of free space quantum key distribution system Wu Jianrong，Zhu Bing (Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science，University of Science and TechnologyofChina，Hefei 230027，China) Abstract：An improved design for the receiver of free space quantum key distribution system was studied．Jones ma。 trix method was used to analyze the relationship between the system bit error rate and optical characteristic of the de— vices in the receiver of the free space quantum key distribution system．Analysis result indicated that the phase shift difference for different polarized light passing through the non polarizing beam splitter(NPBS)was the important source of the system bit error rate．An improved design for the arrangement of the optical path was proposed，in which the system error bit rate could be decreased by only declining the phase shift difference between the P light and the S light in the transmitting optical path for the NPBS．An outdoor 200 m quantum key distribution experiment was carried out using the impr