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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Experimental Demonstration of an Orbital-Angular-Momentum Encoded Quantum Communication Link Co-propagating with a Classical Channel

Yongxiong Ren, Cong Liu, Kai Pang, Jiapeng Zhao, Yinwen Cao, Guodong Xie, Long Li, Zhe Zhao, Zhe Wang, Moshe Tur, Robert W. Boyd, Alan Eli Willner

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an OAM-based quantum communication link populated by a classical channel. OAM enables an up to 100-Mbit/s quantum data rate as well as an additional 18.5-dB separation between the quantum and classical channels.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2017.sw4i.4

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