Satellite-based quantum communication terminal employing state-of-the-art technology

Journal of Optical Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Pfennigbauer, Martin ^a   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^b,c   Leeb, Walter R ^a   Baister, Guy ^d   Dreischer, Thomas ^d   Jennewein, Thomas ^c   Neckamm, Gregor ^b   Perdigues, Josep M ^e   Weinfurter, Harald ^f   Zeilinger, Anton ^b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d Oerlikon Space AG   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; TRANSCEIVERS;

GROUND STATIONS; LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); OPTICAL TERMINAL DESIGNS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION TERMINALS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24344478109     PISSN: 15365379     EISSN: 15365379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JON.4.000549     Document Type: Article

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