Open AccessA new method to acquire the half-wave voltage by the quantum bit error rate in the deterministic quantum key distribution system
Author(s) -
Zhengjun Wei,
Wan Wei,
Jindong Wang,
Liao Chang-Jun,
Songhao Liu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.60.094216.1
Subject(s) - quantum key distribution , computer science , quantum error correction , voltage , quantum , physics , electronic engineering , quantum information , quantum mechanics , engineering
The value of the half-wave voltage of the phase modulator must be measured with high accuracy to reduce the quantum bit error rate (QBER) in a quantum key distribution system based the phase-coding scheme. A new method to measure the half-wave voltage of the phase modulator in an accuracy of 2 mV by adjusting the quantum bit error rate (QBER) of the deterministic quantum key distribution is proposed experimentally to increase the accuracy of the half-wave voltage and reduce the error rate of the quantum key distribution system. The experimental results show that this method can be used to acquire efficiently the half-wave voltage of the phase modulator in a high accuracy which can make the error rate from adding the inaccurate voltage to the phase modulator decrease to the greatest extent.