3 papers
cs.CR2026
Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Infrastructure
Leandros Maglaras, Ilias Papastamatiou, Alexios Aivaliotis +2
The fast growth of quantum computing can lead to amazing scientific breakthroughs while on the same time can be used to break today's security systems, raising new risks for existi…
physics.optics2025
SMF Coupled Compact Ground Terminal with Advanced Filtering Towards Daylight C Band Satellite QKD
Argiris Ntanos, Aristeidis Stathis, Panagiotis Kourelias +14
We demonstrate a compact, high-isolation C-band optical ground terminal for satellite QKD, achieving more than 120 dB daylight background suppression and 135 dB crosstalk noise iso…
cs.CR2025
Time-bin Phase and Polarization based QKD systems performance analysis over 16Km Aerial Fibers
Persefoni Konteli, Nikolaos Makris, Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis +5
We analyze the performance of Time-bin Phase and Polarization based QKD systems on mixed 14Km underground and 16Km of aerial fiber using plug-and-play commercial QKD systems.