Demonstration of Adaptive Optics compensation for Emulated Atmospheric Turbulence in a Two-Orbital-Angular-momentum Encoded Free-Space Quantum Link at 10 Mbits/s
CLEO 2018
Section :
Aerospace and Defense
Publication date:
2018
Published in: 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate adaptive-optics compensation of emulated atmospheric turbulence for an OAM-based quantum communication link with a classical Gaussian beam used as probe. The turbulence-induced quantum-symbol-error-rate is reduced by ≈ 76 % with the compensation.