Implementing QKD over Multi-Fiber Ribbon Cables: How Dark is the “Dark Fiber”?
- Author(s)
- Florian Honz, Vana Pezelj, Theodor Strobl, Florian Kutschera, Valeria Saggio, Philip Walther, Hannes Hübel, Bernhard Schrenk
- Abstract
We identify inter-lane crosstalk as main cause for QKD degradation in 1×12 bend-loss insensitive fiber ribbon cables. Despite allocating QKD to unused fiber lanes, neighboring classical signals can lead to total saturation of single-photon detectors.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Science
- External organisation(s)
- Austrian Institute of Technology
- No. of pages
- 3
- Publication date
- 2026
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103021 Optics, 102040 Quantum computing
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ba6a9c35-5ab7-4e82-811b-010c9a57e7c3