Polarization controlling encoder

Abstract

The invention relates to a polarization controlling encoding method, an encoder and a quantum key dispatching system. The invention is characterized in that the interior of the encoder adopts a polarization-maintaining light path or a ninety-degree Faraday rotation reflector reflection to cause output optical pulse polarization state to be the same; the optical pulse output by the sending terminal of the quantum key dispatching system taking the polarization controlling encoder as the core is passed to the receiving terminal thereof by a quantum channel in a uni-directional way; according to the superposition interference results of the optical pulse and distributorship agreement of the quantum key, the quantum key dispatching is realized. The polarization controlling encoder causes the whole system (comprising a sending set, a reception unit and the quantum channel) to have the interference free capability. The outlet of the sending set and the inlet of the receiving set of the system are added with a reversal photon separation detection unit, thus preventing the invasion of the modulation information and carrying the photon to get off the reception unit of Trojan photon. The quantum key dispatching system can realize unconditional secure assignment of the key.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of optical transmission secure communication, in particular to an encoding method and device in quantum key distribution. Background technique [0002] Early quantum key distribution was encoded with photon polarization, which is suitable for free space communication but not for optical fiber communication system. Because the symmetry of ordinary optical fibers is not very good, and the interference in the transmission path is manifested as the influence on the polarization state of light, it cannot maintain the polarization state of light propagating in it, and polarization coding is not suitable for use in optical fibers. U.S. Patent No. 5,307,410 discloses a phase-encoded quantum key distribution scheme based on a pair of unequal-arm Mach-Zehnder (Mach-Zehnder) interferometers. Different arms of the special interferometer, because the interference received by different arms cannot be completely consisten...

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In fact, this kind of stability is only effective when the transmission distance is not too long and the interference frequency is not too high. When the transmission distance increases, the time difference of the light pulse going back and forth to experience the same position increases, and the anti-interference ability decreases accordingly; , because the optical pulse has to go back and forth twice in the quantum channel, the total loss of the channel is equal to the loss when the actual quantum channel is twice the length. Usually, the method of going strong light and returning single photon is used to make up for this defect, but this compensation method is only applicable to In the current situation of simulating a single-photon source with strongly attenuated laser pulses, the light source for ideal quantum key distribution should be a single-photon source, but the ideal single-photon source is not yet practical. Once the ideal single-photon source is used, the limit transmission of this scheme The distance is only half of the current distance; a more serious defect is that this scheme has potential safety hazards: eavesdroppers may attenuate the strong signal before entering the receiving area in proportion, and then supplement it with a Trojan horse signal with a wavelength very close to the working wavelength, making the reception The total monitoring signal strength in the area remains unchanged, that is, the signal strength monitoring fails. When the signal returns, the Trojan horse signal can be separated by the eavesdropper and the information it carries can be detected, and then the original signal photon is sent back through the "super low loss channel" Or, as long as the eavesdropper properly controls the signal attenuation ratio, the receiving code rate of the system can be unaffected, so that the sender cannot detect it.

For information security technology, this hidden danger of eavesdropping is fatal

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