Engineering a long distance free-space quantum channel
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Roberto Corvaja, Ivan Capraro, Alberto Dall'Arche, Nicola Dalla Pozza, Francesca Gerlin, Andrea Tomaello, Mattia Zorzi, Antonio Assalini, Augusto Ferrante, Gianfranco Pierobon, Francesco Ticozzi, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo VilloresiAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
We present the main design issues and the tests in the setup of a long distance free-space quantum link under development within the project "QuantumFuture" of the University of Padova. In particular, new achievements in the actual engineering of the link are presented, both for polarization quantum states encoding and for coherent quantum states.
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