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Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on the Performance of a High Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution System using Spatial Mode Encoding

Brandon Rodenburg, Mehul Malik, Malcolm N. O’Sullivan, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Robert W. Boyd

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

The effects of atmospheric turbulence on a the channel capacity of a free-space quantum key distribution system with information encoded on the transverse modes of the photon are studied theoretically and experimentally.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2012.qw2a.3

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