Integration of quantum key distribution in metropolitan area networks

Authors

Poppe, Andreas; Schrenk, Bernhard; Hipp, Florian; Peev, Momtchil; Aleksic, Slavisa; Franzl, Gerald; Ciurana Aguilar, Alex y Martín Ayuso, Vicente

Conference Paper

https://doi.org/10.1364/QIM.2014.QW4A.6

Publisher URL

https://www.osapublishing.org/

Publication date

March 2014

The deployment of Quantum Key Distribution forces the development of QKD-links to be operated in current and next-generation photonic metro-access networks. These highly heterogeneous architectures determine the conditions QKD-links need to be optimized for.