Co-propagation of Classical and Continuous-variable QKD Signals over a Turbulent Optical Channel with a Real-time QKD Receiver

Abstract

We demonstrate classical and quantum signal co-propagation over a turbulent free-space channel with 3 Tbit/s throughput and record 2.7 Mbit/s secret-key rate. Our real-time GPU-based receiver assessed quantum signal integrity under different turbulence scenarios for the first time.