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Correction of Wavefront Tilt Caused by Atmospheric Turbulence Using Quadrant Detectors for Enabling Fast Free-Space Quantum Communications in Daylight

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العنوان: Correction of Wavefront Tilt Caused by Atmospheric Turbulence Using Quadrant Detectors for Enabling Fast Free-Space Quantum Communications in Daylight
المؤلفون: Veronica Fernandez, Jorge Gomez-Garcia, Alejandro Ocampos-Guillen, Alberto Carrasco-Casado
المصدر: IEEE Access, Vol 6, Pp 3336-3345 (2018)
بيانات النشر: IEEE, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
مصطلحات موضوعية: Beam steering, free-space quantum communication, quantum cryptography, wavefront tilt correction, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
الوصف: Low photon-level signals used in most free-space quantum communication systems require a narrow field of view in the receiver to minimize the amount of background noise coupled into the single photon detectors. This can be achieved through beam tracking techniques, which compensate atmospheric effects, such as beam wander, in the receiver, reducing the long-term beam area. However, reducing the diameter of this area below a few microns, typically necessary to achieve a low level of solar background noise and successful daylight quantum transmission, require fine tracking precision and diffraction-limited optics. We demonstrate that this can be done with standard voice-coil fast steering mirrors and cheap commercially-available quadrant detectors. Two correcting strategies (open and closed loop) are experimentally tested and analyzed for their applicability in metropolitan (~km range) free-space quantum communications. The area containing the random fluctuations of the beam centroid caused by atmospheric turbulence at the focal plane of the receiver was reduced by a factor of 4 with an open-loop configuration, and up to a factor of nine with a closed loop configuration. This is equivalent to a reduction in the quantum bit error rate caused by background solar noise of up to one order of magnitude, which, combined with spectral filtering techniques, enable the possibility of fast daylight quantum key distribution.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2169-3536
Relation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8252707/; https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2791099
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/6e3ab1e1059d4cbab5eeccbe0498342a
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6e3ab1e1059d4cbab5eeccbe0498342a
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:21693536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2791099