Quantifying backflash radiation to prevent zero-error attacks in quantum key distribution

Alice Meda; Ivo Pietro Degiovanni; Alberto Tosi; Zhiliang Yuan; Giorgio Brida; Marco Genovese

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.261

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Quantifying backflash radiation to prevent zero-error attacks in quantum key distribution

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- Quantifying backflash radiation to prevent zero-error attacks in quantum key distribution
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.INRIM, 10135 Torino, Italy
  2.Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
  3.Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge CB4 0GZ, UK
- Author bio：
  
  A Meda, Email: a.meda@inrim.it
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.261
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- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：05 December 2016，
  
  Received：19 June 2016，
  
  Revised：18 November 2016，
  
  Accepted：30 November 2016
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Meda, A. et al. Quantifying backflash radiation to prevent zero-error attacks in quantum key distribution. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16261 (2017).
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Meda, A. et al. Quantifying backflash radiation to prevent zero-error attacks in quantum key distribution. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16261 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.261.

摘要

Abstract

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are the most widespread commercial solution for single-photon counting in quantum key distribution applications. However

the secondary photon emission that arises from the avalanche of charge carriers that occurs during the detection of a photon may be exploited by an eavesdropper to gain information without inducing errors in the transmission key. In this paper

we characterize such backflash light in gated InGaAs/InP SPADs and discuss its spectral and temporal characterization for different detector models and different operating parameters. We qualitatively bound the maximum information leakage due to backflash light and propose solutions for preventing such leakage.

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Keywords

backflashquantum key distributionsingle-photon avalanche diodezero-error attack

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