Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a fiber key distribution system based on semiconductor light source phase noise, which eliminates intensity noise items by utilizing a difference method, ensures that restored signals have higher consistency while extracting phase noise, has ingenious and novel design, ensures that light signals emitted from two communication parties go through the same path and extract the phase noise of the light source after undergoing beat frequency subtraction, and finally forms a key which is only related to the light source and the key distribution path, has stronger anti-interference performance and realizes the high-speed key distribution of the two communication parties.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
The invention provides an optical fiber key distribution system based on semiconductor light source phase noise, which comprises a light source, a first beam splitter, a second beam splitter, a first photoelectric detector, a second photoelectric detector, a third photoelectric detector, a fourth photoelectric detector, a first optical fiber link, a second optical fiber link, a third optical fiber link and a fourth optical fiber link;
The light source emits light signals which are respectively split into a first optical fiber link and a second optical fiber link through a first beam splitter;
the first optical fiber link is connected with the second beam splitting device; the first photoelectric detector and the second photoelectric detector are respectively connected with the second beam splitting device;
The second optical fiber link is connected with a third beam splitter, and the third photoelectric detector and the fourth photoelectric detector are respectively connected with the third beam splitter.
The first optical fiber link, the second optical fiber link, the third optical fiber link and the fourth optical fiber link are all standard single mode optical fibers.
Wherein, the optical path difference of the third optical fiber link and the fourth optical fiber link is greater than the optical source interference length.
Wherein the second beam splitting device and the third beam splitting device are both 3×3 fiber couplers.
The bandwidths of the first photoelectric detector, the second photoelectric detector, the third photoelectric detector and the fourth photoelectric detector are consistent.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
The invention makes the light signal sent from the semiconductor laser which works stably reach the legal two parties of communication after being split by the first beam splitter, and the light signal reaches the other end of communication through two optical fiber links after passing through the 3X 3 coupler, and then enters the 3X 3 coupler to complete beat frequency, and finally is received by the photoelectric detectors of the two parties of communication, and the phase noise item related to the light source can be obtained as the basis for generating the key after the intensity noise item is subtracted by the signal received by the photoelectric detector and the signal received by the other local detector; the invention eliminates the intensity noise item by utilizing the difference method, ensures that the restored signal has higher consistency while extracting the phase noise, has ingenious and novel design, ensures that the optical signals sent out by two communication parties go through the same path and are subjected to beat frequency subtraction to extract the phase noise of the light source, and finally forms the key which is only related to the light source and the key distribution path.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described with reference to examples and drawings, to which reference is made, but which are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The optical fiber key distribution system based on semiconductor light source phase noise comprises a light source 1, a first beam splitter 2, a second beam splitter 5, a first photoelectric detector 7, a second photoelectric detector 8, a third photoelectric detector 9, a fourth photoelectric detector 10, a first optical fiber link 3, a second optical fiber link 4, a third optical fiber link 11 and a fourth optical fiber link 12, as shown in fig. 1;
the light source 1 emits light signals, and the light signals are respectively split into a first optical fiber link 3 and a second optical fiber link 4 through the first beam splitter 2;
the first optical fiber link 3 is connected with a second beam splitting device 5, and the first photoelectric detector 7 and the second photoelectric detector 8 are respectively connected with the second beam splitting device 5;
the second optical fiber link 4 is connected with a third beam splitter 6, and the third photodetector 9 and the fourth photodetector 10 are respectively connected with the third beam splitter 6.
Specifically, the light source 1 and the first beam splitter 2 may be located at either one of the two communication parties or may be located at a different place from the two communication parties, and the first beam splitter 2 is configured to receive an optical signal from the light source 1 and transmit the optical signal to the first optical fiber link 3 and the second optical fiber link 4;
the second beam splitter 5 is configured to receive an optical signal from the first optical fiber link 3 and transmit the optical signal to the third beam splitter 6, and is configured to receive an optical signal from the third beam splitter 6 and transmit the optical signal to the first photodetector 7 and the second photodetector 8;
The third beam splitter 6 is configured to receive the optical signal from the second optical fiber link 4 and transmit the optical signal to the second beam splitter 5, and is configured to receive the optical signal from the second beam splitter 5 and transmit the optical signal to the third photodetector 9 and the fourth photodetector 10;
The first optical fiber link 3, the second optical fiber link 4, the third optical fiber link 11 and the fourth optical fiber link 12 are all used for transmitting optical signals;
The first photodetector 7, the second photodetector 8, the third photodetector 9 and the fourth photodetector 10 are all used for converting optical signals into electrical signals so as to obtain corresponding keys;
The second beam splitter 5, the first photodetector 7 and the second photodetector 8 are located locally on one of the two parties, and the third beam splitter 6, the third photodetector 9 and the fourth photodetector 10 are located locally on the other party.
The invention divides the light signal from the semiconductor laser which works stably through the first beam splitter 2 to reach the legal two parties of communication respectively, reaches the other end of communication through two optical fiber links through the 3X 3 coupler, enters the 3X 3 coupler to complete beat frequency, is received by the photoelectric detectors of the two parties of communication respectively, and the signal received by the photoelectric detector is subtracted by the signal received by the other local detector to obtain the phase noise item related to the light source 1 as the basis for generating the key.
The phase noise in a stable semiconductor laser results from spontaneous emission of photons, which, unlike statistical pseudo-randomness, is physically truly random due to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, and the random bit rate is ultimately limited only by the laser linewidth, which represents that the digital key extracted from the phase noise of the laser by appropriate means is truly random as well. In addition to phase noise, however, the laser is also operated with intrinsic intensity noise.
The invention has ingenious and novel design, the phase noise of the light source 1 is extracted after the light signals sent from the two communication parties go through the same path and are subjected to beat frequency subtraction, the finally formed secret key is only related to the light source 1 and the secret key distribution path, and the extracted secret key can achieve higher generation rate and randomness due to the high-speed and physical random characteristic of the phase noise of the semiconductor light source 1.
In this embodiment, the first optical fiber link 3, the second optical fiber link 4, the third optical fiber link 11, and the fourth optical fiber link 12 are all standard single-mode optical fibers. Wherein, the optical path difference between the third optical fiber link 11 and the fourth optical fiber link 12 is larger than the interference length of the light source 1. Wherein, the second beam splitting device 5 and the third beam splitting device 6 are both 3×3 optical fiber couplers. Wherein bandwidths of the first photodetector 7, the second photodetector 8, the third photodetector 9 and the fourth photodetector 10 are identical.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the light source is a broad-spectrum superluminescent diode, in order to obtain a sufficiently large noise variance, a noise signal is filtered by an optical filter with a bandwidth of 100GHz and a center wavelength of 1542.32nm, and then split into two single-mode 3×3 couplers by a single-mode 3dB coupler (first beam splitter), and then enters two sections of 40 km external optical fiber links, and after reaching the other end 3×3 coupler, the beat frequency is completed and then received by a high-speed photodetector. The length difference of the two sections of external optical fiber links is 160.3 meters, which is far longer than the interference length of the optical wave after filtering. When the optical power reaching the coupler from the two segments of external fiber optic links is equal, the optical signals received by the two local detectors can be expressed as:
Where T represents the delay between the two external fiber links due to the difference in length, ψ j and ψ 2 are the additional phase delays for the 3×3 coupler, which can be expressed as
From the representation of the laser composite radiation field
Here the constant E 0 is the average field amplitude, the functions δ (t) and Φ (t) are the relative intensity fluctuation and the relative phase fluctuation, respectively, which are a series of zero-mean generalized stationary real numbers in time correlation, both of which are related to the relative intensity noise and the relative phase noise, respectively. Omega 0 corresponds to the emission frequency of the SLD light source center spectrum.
Combining equations (1) (2) and (4) results in two detectors receiving a light intensity of
Here, theRepresenting the time-varying phase fluctuations of the light,Can be regarded as Gaussian white noise, and the mean square phase deviation isWhere T C is the coherence time of the light after it has passed through the filter. As the relative delay T increases, the phase difference ripple and the phase noise amplitude also increase. When T > > T, the phase noise approaches a progressive level, as in the present case, while the intensity fluctuations δ (T) and δ (t+T) are negligible in comparison, i.e
In this case, the amplitude of the local two receivers is subtracted, and the difference signal can be expressed as
It can be found that only the phase noise term is included in the difference signal here. It should be noted that, due to the existence of the additional phase delays, to ensure that the difference signals obtained by the two communication parties have better consistency, the additional phase delays of the two corresponding detectors should be the same.
Fig. 2 shows waveform comparison of difference signals of the two received original signals within 30ns after subtraction, wherein 4 photodetectors with 3.5GHz bandwidth are used, and the sampling rate of an oscilloscope is 5GSample/s. By pearson correlation coefficient formula
The correlation coefficient of the two paths of difference signals obtained through calculation is 0.94, which shows that the two paths of difference signals have extremely high similarity. Converting analog signals into digital signal sequences by using a double-threshold quantization method, wherein the conversion rule is as follows
Q+ and q are quantized high and low thresholds, respectively, epsilon is a scalar that determines the final threshold. Under the above conditions, the final key generation rate can reach 2.3Gbit/s by adjusting epsilon value, and the error rate of the key sequences of both sides is only 0.0001%.
While the invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited thereto, and that the invention is not limited thereto, but is intended to be limited thereto, when the technical content disclosed above is utilized to make a little change or modification into equivalent embodiments of equivalent changes, but the technical content of the invention is not deviated from, any simple modification, equivalent changes and modification of the above embodiments are all within the scope of the technical solution of the invention.