Replacing Intensity Modulators with IQ Modulators
Replacing traditional intensity modulators with IQ modulators can reduce pattern effects due to intensity correlations, particularly in decoy-state QKD setups.
Literature
| [Gao2023] | Yuanfei Gao and Zhiliang Yuan. "Suppression of patterning efect using IQ modulator for high-speed quantum key distribution systems" In: Opt. Lett. 48, 1068-1071. (2023) 10.1364/OL.481374. |
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