Effects of a nuclear disturbed environment on a quantum free space optical link
arXiv:2108.04888 · doi:10.1364/OE.433223
Abstract
This manuscript investigates the potential effect of a nuclear-disturbed atmospheric environment on the signal attenuation of a ground/satellite transmitter/receiver system for both classical optical and quantum communications applications. Attenuation of a signal transmitted through the rising nuclear cloud and the subsequently transported debris is modeled climatologically for surface-level detonations of 10 kt, 100 kt, and 1 Mt. Attenuation statistics were collected as a function of time after detonation. These loss terms were compared to normal loss sources such as clouds, smoke from fires, and clear sky operation. Finally, the loss was related to the degradation of transmitted entanglement derived from Bayesian mean estimation.
arXiv comment20 pages, 10 figures
References in corpus (17)
- Entanglement of Formation of an Arbitrary State of Two Qubits
- Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution
- Overcoming the rate-distance barrier of quantum key distribution without using quantum repeaters
- Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
- Quantum cryptography protocols robust against photon number splitting attacks for weak laser pulses implementations
- Sending-or-Not-Sending with Independent Lasers: Secure Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution Over 509 km
- Experimental Satellite Quantum Communications
- Satellite-to-ground quantum communication using a 50-kg-class micro-satellite
- Long-Distance Quantum Communication with Entangled Photons using Satellites
- Feasibility of satellite quantum key distribution
- Retrieving the Aerosol Complex Refractive Index using PyMieScatt: A Mie Computational Package with Visualization Capabilities
- Free space laser telecommunication through fog
- Space-QUEST: Experiments with quantum entanglement in space
- Satellite-based links for Quantum Key Distribution: beam effects and weather dependence
- Satellite constellations for trusted node QKD networks
- Analysis of atmospheric effects on satellite based quantum communication: A comparative study
- Quantum state estimation when qubits are lost: A no-data-left-behind approach