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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.042331
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We report an experimental quantum key distribution that utilizes pulsed homodyne detection, instead of photon counting, to detect weak pulses of coherent light. Although our scheme inherently has a finite error rate, homodyne detection allows high-efficiency detection and quantum state measurement of the transmitted light using only conventional devices at room temperature. Our prototype system works at 1.55 mum wavelength and the quantum channel is a 1-km standard optical fiber. The probability distribution of the measured electric-field amplitude has a Gaussian shape. The effect of experimental imperfections such as optical loss and detector noise can be parametrized by the variance and the mean value of the Gaussian distribution.
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