A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)fo...A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)for data encoding.A classical Gaussian beam is used as a probe to detect the turbulence-induced wavefront distortion in the forward direction of the link.Based on the detected wavefront distortion,an AO system located on one end of the link is used to simultaneously compensate for the forward and backward channels.Specifcally,with emulated turbulence and when the probe is turned on,the mode purity of photons carrying OAMℓ=1 is improved by∼21%with AO mitigation.We also measured the performance when encoding data using OAM{ℓ=−1,+2}and{ℓ=−2,+1}in the forward and backward channels,respectively,at 10 Mbit/s per channel with one photon per pulse on average.For this case,we found that the AO system could reduce the turbulence efects increased quantum-symbolerror-rate(QSER)by∼76%and∼74%,for both channels in the uni-directional and bi-directional cases,respectively.Similar QSER improvement is observed for the opposite direction channels in the bi-directional case.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the Ofce of Naval Research(ONR)[N00014-15-1-2635]the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship program sponsored by the Basic Research Ofce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and funded by ONR[N00014-16-1-2813]the National Science Foundation(NSF)[ECCS-1509965].
文摘A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)for data encoding.A classical Gaussian beam is used as a probe to detect the turbulence-induced wavefront distortion in the forward direction of the link.Based on the detected wavefront distortion,an AO system located on one end of the link is used to simultaneously compensate for the forward and backward channels.Specifcally,with emulated turbulence and when the probe is turned on,the mode purity of photons carrying OAMℓ=1 is improved by∼21%with AO mitigation.We also measured the performance when encoding data using OAM{ℓ=−1,+2}and{ℓ=−2,+1}in the forward and backward channels,respectively,at 10 Mbit/s per channel with one photon per pulse on average.For this case,we found that the AO system could reduce the turbulence efects increased quantum-symbolerror-rate(QSER)by∼76%and∼74%,for both channels in the uni-directional and bi-directional cases,respectively.Similar QSER improvement is observed for the opposite direction channels in the bi-directional case.
