Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions
- Bedington, Robert
- Bai, Xueliang
- Truong-Cao, Edward
- Tan, Yue Chuan
- Durak, Kadir
- Villar Zafra, Aitor
- Grieve, James A
- Oi, Daniel KL
- Ling, Alexander
DOIAbstract
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
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