Quantum Communications Feasibility Tests over a UK-Ireland 224 km Undersea Link

Ben Amies-King; Karolina P. Schatz; Haofan Duan; Ayan Biswas; Jack Bailey; Adrian Felvinti; Jaimes Winward; Mike Dixon; Mariella Minder; Rupesh Kumar; Sophie Albosh; Marco Lucamarini

doi:10.3390/e25121572

Quantum Communications Feasibility Tests over a UK-Ireland 224 km Undersea Link

Ben Amies-King^*, Karolina P. Schatz^*, Haofan Duan, Ayan Biswas, Jack Bailey, Adrian Felvinti, Jaimes Winward, Mike Dixon, Mariella Minder, Rupesh Kumar, Sophie Albosh, Marco Lucamarini^*

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Abstract

The future quantum internet will leverage existing communication infrastructures, including deployed optical fibre networks, to enable novel applications that outperform current information technology. In this scenario, we perform a feasibility study of quantum communications over an industrial 224 km submarine optical fibre link deployed between Southport in the United Kingdom (UK) and Portrane in the Republic of Ireland (IE). With a characterisation of phase drift, polarisation stability and the arrival time of entangled photons, we demonstrate the suitability of the link to enable international UK–IE quantum communications for the first time.

Original language	English
Article number	1572
Number of pages	13
Journal	Entropy
Volume	25
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121572
Publication status	Published - 22 Nov 2023

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Funding has been provided through the partnership resource scheme of the EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub grant (EP/T001011/1).

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Keywords

optical phase drift
polarisation stability
QKD feasibility study
quantum bit error rate
quantum entanglement
quantum key distribution
submarine fibre channel

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