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most citedSatellite-to-ground quantum key distribution

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quant-ph2025

Free-Space Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution

Yu-Huai Li, Ting Zeng, Min-Yan Wang +22

Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) elevates the secure key rate from a linear to a square-root dependence on channel loss while preserving measurement-device-independent…

physics.ins-det2022★ 131 cited

113 km Free-Space Time-Frequency Dissemination at the 19th Decimal Instability

Qi Shen, Jian-Yu Guan, Ji-Gang Ren +28

Optical clock networks play important roles in various fields, such as precise navigation, redefinition of "second" unit, and gravitational tests. To establish a global-scale optic…

quant-ph2020★ 75 cited

Towards satellite-based quantum-secure time transfer

Hui Dai, Qi Shen, Chao-Ze Wang +11

High-precision time synchronization for remote clocks plays an important role in fundamental science and real-life applications. However, the current time synchronization technique…

physics.optics2020

Time-Frequency Transfer through a 70 dB Free Space Channel: Towards Satellite-Ground Time Dissemination

Qi Shen, Jian-Yu Guan, Ting Zeng +15

Time and frequency transfer lies at the heart of the field of metrology. Compared to current microwave dissemination such as GPS, optical domain dissemination can provide more than…

physics.ins-det2019★ 41 cited

Spaceborne low-noise single-photon detection for satellite-based quantum communications

Meng Yang, Feihu Xu, Ji-Gang Ren +9

Single-photon detectors (SPDs) play important roles in highly sensitive detection applications, such as fluorescence spectroscopy, remote sensing and ranging, deep space optical co…

cs.DC2018★ 1 cited

Design and Implementation of High-throughput PCIe with DMA Architecture between FPGA and PowerPC

Kun Cheng, Weiyue Liu, Qi Shen +1

We designed and implemented a direct memory access (DMA) architecture of PCI-Express(PCIe) between Xilinx Field Program Gate Array(FPGA) and Freescale PowerPC. The DMA architecture…

eess.SP2018

A 3.8 ps RMS time synchronization implemented in a 20 nm FPGA

Hong-Bo Xie, Yang Li, Qi Shen +2

A 3.8ps root mean square (RMS) time synchronization implemented in a 20nm fabrication process ultrascale kintex Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented. The multichannel…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

An ultra-sensitive balanced detector with low noise for continuous-variable quantum key distribution

Qi-Ming Lu, Qi Shen, Yuan Cao +2

A well-balanced detector with high sensitivity and low noise is presented in this paper. The two-stage amplification structure is used to increase electronic gain while keeping an…

quant-ph2018★ 798 cited

Satellite-relayed intercontinental quantum network

Sheng-Kai Liao, Wen-Qi Cai, Johannes Handsteiner +33

We perform decoy-state quantum key distribution between a low-Earth-orbit satellite and multiple ground stations located in Xinglong, Nanshan, and Graz, which establish satellite-t…

quant-ph2017★ 48 cited

Bell Test Over Extremely High-Loss Channels: Towards Distributing Entangled Photon Pairs Between Earth and Moon

Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Wen-Jie Zou +8

Quantum entanglement was termed "spooky action at a distance" in the well-known paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. Entanglement is expected to be distributed over longer and l…

quant-ph2017★ 1.8k cited

Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution

Sheng-Kai Liao, Wen-Qi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu +31

Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses individual light quanta in quantum superposition states to guarantee unconditional communication security between distant parties. In practice,…

quant-ph2014★ 6 cited

A Compact PCI-based Measurement and Control System for Satellite-Ground Quantum Communication

Binxiang Qi, Shubin Liu, Qi Shen +6

Since the 1990s, there has been a dramatic interest in quantum communication. Free-space quantum communication is being developed to ultra-long distance quantum experiment, which r…

physics.ins-det2014★ 10 cited

A Multi-chain Measurements Averaging TDC Implemented in a 40 nm FPGA

Qi Shen, Shubin Liu, Binxiang Qi +4

A high precision and high resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented in a 40 nm fabrication process Virtex-6 FPGA is presented in this paper. The multi-chain measuremen…

physics.ins-det2013★ 10 cited

A Fast Improved Fat Tree Encoder for Wave Union TDC in an FPGA

Qi Shen, Lei Zhao, Shubin Liu +5

Up to the present, the wave union method can achieve the best timing performance in FPGA based TDC designs. However, it should be guaranteed in such a structure that the non-thermo…

quant-ph2012★ 310 cited

Direct and full-scale experimental verifications towards ground-satellite quantum key distribution

Jian-Yu Wang, Bin Yang, Sheng-Kai Liao +21

Quantum key distribution (QKD), provides the only intrinsically unconditional secure method for communication based on principle of quantum mechanics. Compared with fiber-based dem…