Enabling Shortwave-QKD in Short-Reach Networks: Impact of a Composite ODN Native to Telecom Applications

Mariana F. Ramos, Costin Luchian, Michael Hentschel +4

We deploy shortwave-QKD over short-reach in-house/datacom architectures and show that few-mode propagation and speckle-selective loss severely impact the QKD performance. We accomp…