Direct phase modulation via optical injection: theoretical study.

Direct phase modulation via optical injection is a newly developed method for coding the phase of a gain-switched laser, which meets high requirements placed on transmitters for quantum key distribution: compactness, low losses, compatibility with CMOS technologies, and the absence of undesirable effects leading to the side-channel information leakage. Despite the successful implementation and good prospects for the further development of this system, there is still a lack of theoretical investigations of this scheme in the literature. Here, for the first time, we perform its theoretical analysis.

X-ray Diffraction, NMR Studies, and DFT Calculations of the Room and High Temperature Structures of Rubidium Cryolite, RbAlF.

A crystallographic approach incorporating multinuclear high field solid state NMR (SSNMR), X-ray structure determinations, TEM observation, and density functional theory (DFT) was used to characterize two polymorphs of rubidium cryolite, RbAlF. The room temperature phase was found to be ordered and crystallizes in the (no. 70) space group with = 37.

Quantum noise extraction from the interference of laser pulses in an optical quantum random number generator.

We propose a method for quantum noise extraction from the interference of laser pulses with random phase. Our technique is based on the calculation of a parameter, which we called the quantum reduction factor, and which allows for the determination of the contributions of quantum and classical noises with the assumption that classical fluctuations exhibit Gaussian distribution. To the best of our knowledge, the concept of quantum reduction factor is introduced for the first time.