Field Trial of Multi-Node, Coherent-One-Way Quantum Key Distribution with Encrypted 5x100G DWDM Transmission System
A. Wonfor, C. White, Arash Bahrami, Joseph Pearse, Guihua Duan, Andrew David Straw, Thomas G. Edwards, Timothy P. Spiller, Richard V. Penty, A. Lord · 2019
© 2019 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved. We report on the launch of a link using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) integrated with 500Gbps encrypted data over 121 km between Adastral Park and Cambridge, UK. This is the first field trial of a Coherent-One-Way QKD system integrated with a commercial-grade encrypted DWDM system.