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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

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.