Experimental demonstration of a 4,294,967,296-QAM-based Y-00 quantum stream cipher template carrying 160-Gb/s 16-QAM signals

Xi Chen; Ken Tanizawa; Peter Winzer; Po Dong; Junho Cho; Fumio Futami; Kentaro Kato; Argishti Melikyan; K W Kim

doi:10.1364/OE.405390

Experimental demonstration of a 4,294,967,296-QAM-based Y-00 quantum stream cipher template carrying 160-Gb/s 16-QAM signals

Opt Express. 2021 Feb 15;29(4):5658-5664. doi: 10.1364/OE.405390.

Authors

Xi Chen, Ken Tanizawa, Peter Winzer, Po Dong, Junho Cho, Fumio Futami, Kentaro Kato, Argishti Melikyan, K W Kim

PMID: 33726100
DOI: 10.1364/OE.405390

Abstract

We demonstrate a 4,294,967,296-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) based Y-00 quantum stream cipher system carrying a 160-Gb/s 16-QAM signal transmitted over 320-km SSMF. The ultra-dense QAM cipher template is realized by an integrated two-segment silicon photonics I/Q modulator.