Quantum communications at ESA: Towards a space experiment on the ISS

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 63, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 165-178

  Perdigues Armengol, Josep Maria ^a   Furch, Bernhard ^a   de Matos, Clovis Jacinto ^b   Minster, Olivier ^a   Cacciapuoti, Luigi ^a   Pfennigbauer, Martin ^c   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^d   Jennewein, Thomas ^e   Ursin, Rupert ^d   Schmitt Manderbach, Tobias ^f   Baister, Guy ^g   Rarity, John ^h   Leeb, Walter ⁱ   Barbieri, Cesare ^j   Weinfurter, Harald ^f   Zeilinger, Anton ^d,e  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ESA HQ   (France)

^c RIEGL LASER MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS GMBH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^g Oerlikon Space ^*  (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SPACE STATIONS;

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA); INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS);

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449090386     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2007.12.039     Document Type: Article

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