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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution
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Application No.: US17342151Application Date: 2021-06-08
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Publication No.: US11888978B1Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Jing Wang , Bernardo Huberman
- Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CO Louisville
- Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Louisville
- Agency: COZEN O'CONNOR
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; G06N10/00 ; H04B10/85 ; G06F1/10 ; H04J14/02

Abstract:
A measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) network includes a plurality of user nodes connected to untrusted relay node that performs Bell-state measurements on qubits transmitted by the user nodes. The relay node contains a calibration laser that serves as a wavelength reference for the user nodes. The output of the calibration laser is split into two wavelength-calibration signals, which are transmitted to a pair of user nodes via optical fiber. At each user node, a laser diode used to generate weak coherent pulses is injection-locked with the wavelength calibration-signal, thereby ensuring that the user nodes generate photonic qubits with the same wavelength. The embodiments may be implemented with any encoding scheme compatible with MDI-QKD, such as polarization encoding and time-bin phase-encoding. No auxiliary connections between the user nodes are needed, allowing the MDI-QKD network to be scaled up to many users.
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