The QKD laboratory is a technological infrastructure for R&D&I in the field of ultra-secure communications based on QKD (Quantum Key Distribution).
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DESCRIPTION
It is based on Clavis3 equipment from ID-Quantique. It consists of a transmitter and a receiver connected through a quantum channel, which is used for transmission.
The channels consist of optical fibres connected by SFP transceivers with LC/UCP connectors. The infrastructure allows for secure key exchange over fibres with a maximum attenuation of 12/18dB (up to a distance of 100 km).
Some of the laboratory applications are:
- QKD experimental platform at all levels
- Deployment of experimental quantum communication rings with QKD exchange up to 100 km.
- Research on quantum detectors.
- Research on optical elements.
- Random number generation for cryptographic experiments.
- Optimisation of classical QKD quantum algorithms.
- Development of new QKD Exchange algorithms.
- Experiments with the use of QKD over TLS
- Implementation of QKD use cases on real communication systems
