Near-space flight of a correlated photon system

We report the successful test flight of a device for generating and monitoring correlated photon pairs under near-space conditions up to 35.5 km altitude. Data from ground based qualification tests and the high altitude experiment demonstrate that the device continues to operate even under harsh env...

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Autores principales: Tang, Zhongkan, Chandrasekara, Rakhitha, Sean, Yau Yong, Cheng, Cliff, Wildfeuer, Christoph, Ling, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25219935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06366
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author Tang, Zhongkan
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Sean, Yau Yong
Cheng, Cliff
Wildfeuer, Christoph
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description We report the successful test flight of a device for generating and monitoring correlated photon pairs under near-space conditions up to 35.5 km altitude. Data from ground based qualification tests and the high altitude experiment demonstrate that the device continues to operate even under harsh environmental conditions. The design of the rugged, compact and power-efficient photon pair system is presented. This design enables autonomous photon pair systems to be deployed on low-resource platforms such as nanosatellites hosting remote nodes of a quantum key distribution network. These results pave the way for tests of entangled photon technology in low earth orbit.
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spelling pubmed-41636662014-09-22 Near-space flight of a correlated photon system Tang, Zhongkan Chandrasekara, Rakhitha Sean, Yau Yong Cheng, Cliff Wildfeuer, Christoph Ling, Alexander Sci Rep Article We report the successful test flight of a device for generating and monitoring correlated photon pairs under near-space conditions up to 35.5 km altitude. Data from ground based qualification tests and the high altitude experiment demonstrate that the device continues to operate even under harsh environmental conditions. The design of the rugged, compact and power-efficient photon pair system is presented. This design enables autonomous photon pair systems to be deployed on low-resource platforms such as nanosatellites hosting remote nodes of a quantum key distribution network. These results pave the way for tests of entangled photon technology in low earth orbit. Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4163666/ /pubmed/25219935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06366 Text en Copyright © 2014, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder in order to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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