Light Source Monitoring in Quantum Key Distribution with Single Photon Detector at Room Temperature
arXiv:1710.00370 · doi:10.1109/JQE.2018.2827569
Abstract
Photon number resolving monitoring is a practical light source monitoring scheme in QKD systems, which reduces the impacts from untrusted sources effectively. This scheme requires a single photon detector, normally working at low temperature to suppress its dark count rate. In this paper, we use a room-temperature detector and show that the dark count rate is irrelevant to the monitoring performance in our scheme, which can sufficiently relax requirements on the detector's working conditions as well as integration complexity, and this would be highly demanded for practical systems. Furthermore, influences of parameter drifts at room temperature are analyzed, and the monitoring scheme is testified in a real QKD system.
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