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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 27, Issue 20, Pages 29206-29215Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.029207
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2016YFE0104500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61431009, 61433009, 61571291]
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This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates an error-free secure key generation and distribution (SKGD) scheme in classical optical fiber link by exploiting Stokes parameters (SPs) of the state of polarization (SOP). Due to the unique birefringence distribution of the optical fiber channel, random but high-correlated SPs are shared between Alice and Bob. The dynamic SPs are also affected by the time-varying environmental factors, providing the source of randomness for the secret key extraction. As a proof of concept, key generation rate (KGR) of 213-bits/s is successfully demonstrated over 25-km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF). The error-free SKGD is realized in fiber channel using the information reconciliation (IR) technology, where Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes are applied. Due to the channel uniqueness and the high-sensitivity to the initial SOP of optical signals, high-level security is provided by the proposed scheme, which is analyzed and verified against the possible fiber-tapping attacks. Moreover, the proposed SKGD scheme offers additional benefits such as simple structure, low cost, and suitablity for long-haul transmission. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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