Experimental setup for SPS BB84 (IMAGE)

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Experimental setup for SPS BB84

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The experimental layout of the sender Alice and the receiver Bob. Alice’s setup contains the excitation and collection setup of the single photon source, and a Sagnac-like polarization modulator for fast polarization modulation. Bob’s setup is a two-basis polarization projection based on the Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector.

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