Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions

Robert Bedington; Xueliang Bai; Edward Truong-Cao; Yue Chuan Tan; Kadir Durak; Aitor Villar Zafra; James A Grieve; Daniel KL Oi; Alexander Ling

doi:10.1140/epjqt/s40507-016-0051-7

Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions

Robert Bedington, Xueliang Bai, Edward Truong-Cao, Yue Chuan Tan, Kadir Durak, Aitor Villar Zafra, James A Grieve, Daniel KL Oi, Alexander Ling

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Abstract

We present a programme for establishing the space worthiness of highly-miniaturised, polarisation-entangled, photon pair sources using CubeSat nanosatellites. Once demonstrated, the photon pair sources can be deployed on more advanced satellites that are equipped with optical links to establish a global space-based quantum key distribution network. In doing so, this work will also bring experimental tests of the overlap between quantum and relativistic regimes closer to realisation.

Original language	English
Article number	12
Journal	EPJ Quantum Technology
Volume	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-016-0051-7
Publication status	Published - 18 Oct 2016

Keywords

QKD
SPDC
CubeSat
SPEQS
nanosatellites
polarisation-entangled
highly-miniaturised
photon pairs
optical links
quantum key distribution
spontaneous parametric downconversion
small photon entangling quantum system

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Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions

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CubeSat quantum communications mission

Nanosatellites for quantum science and technology

Generation and analysis of correlated pairs of photons on board a nanosatellite

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