Demonstration of Adaptive Optics Compensation for Emulated Atmospheric Turbulence in a Two-Orbital-Angular-Momentum Encoded Free-Space Quantum Link at 10 Mbits/s

Authors :: Haoqian Song
Alan E. Willner
Jiapeng Zhao
Yongxiong Ren
Runzhou Zhang
Long Li
Guillaume Labroille
Kai Pang
Cong Liu
Yinwen Cao
Jing Du
Moshe Tur
Guodong Xie
Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
Dmitry Starodubov
Robert W. Boyd
Zhe Zhao
Pu Jian
Hao Song
Source :: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: OSA, 2018.
Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate adaptive-optics compensation of emulated atmospheric turbulence for an OAM-based quantum communication link with a classical Gaussian beam used as probe. The turbulence-induced quantum-symbol-error-rate is reduced by « 76 % with the compensation.

Subjects :: Physics
Angular momentum
Physics::Optics
02 engineering and technology
Quantum channel
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Compensation (engineering)
Computational physics
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
010309 optics
Physics::Space Physics
0103 physical sciences
Light beam
0210 nano-technology
Quantum information science
Adaptive optics
Quantum
Gaussian beam

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