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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">37</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.153.337</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Posterior laser-locking technique for MDI-QKD</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Метод обеспечения взаимной когерентности двух независимых лазеров на этапе постобработки для реализации протоколов КРК с использованием НЦУ</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Mekhtiev</surname>
            <given-names>El</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>mekhtiev@phystech.edu</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Gerasin</surname>
            <given-names>Ilia</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>i.gerasin@goqrate.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rudavin</surname>
            <given-names>Nikita</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>n.rudavin@goqrate.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Duplinsky</surname>
            <given-names>Alexey</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>a.duplinsky@goqrate.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kurochkin</surname>
            <given-names>Yury</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>yk@goqrate.com</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-23">
        <day>23</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>15</volume>
      <issue>3.3</issue>
      <fpage>194</fpage>
      <lpage>197</lpage>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>We present a novel soft-ware based method to ensure independent lasers mutual coherence required for practical realization of advanced Measurement Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD) protocols. Proof of principle experiment has proved validity of the method, providing mutual coherence time while upper bound dictated by uncontrollable phase drift in optical fiber being ~ 100 µs.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>MDI-QKD</kwd>
        <kwd>mode-pairing protocol</kwd>
        <kwd>asynchronous protocols</kwd>
        <kwd>mutual phase stabilization</kwd>
        <kwd>mutual coherence</kwd>
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