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IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES)

Resources for Satellite-Based Quantum Communication Networks

László Bacsárdi

Published Jun 1, 2018• 7 citations
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Abstract

Quantum mechanics-based computing offers revolutionary solutions in several fields including communications. Different out-of-laboratory experiments demonstrated the feasibility of the wired-based quantum communication networks and several free-space experiments have been performed. The next step will be a satellite-based quantum network, which will allow global secure communications. In our paper, we describe the requirements for such network and detail our results on a novel, entanglement-based satellite quantum communication network.

DOI
10.1109/ines.2018.8523885

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