Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers

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Efficient Long Range Communication by Quantum Injected Optical Parametric Amplification

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_25,
        author={Chiara Vitelli and Lorenzo Toffoli and Fabio Sciarrino and Francesco Martini},
        title={Efficient Long Range Communication by Quantum Injected Optical Parametric Amplification},
        proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={PSATS},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Quantum Communication Quantum Teleportation Optical Parametric Amplifier},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_25}
    }
    
  • Chiara Vitelli
    Lorenzo Toffoli
    Fabio Sciarrino
    Francesco Martini
    Year: 2012
    Efficient Long Range Communication by Quantum Injected Optical Parametric Amplification
    PSATS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_25
Chiara Vitelli,*, Lorenzo Toffoli1, Fabio Sciarrino, Francesco Martini
  • 1: “Sapienza” Università di Roma
*Contact email: chiara.vitelli@gmail.com

Abstract

Free-space optical communications over long distances are associated with severe losses while the natural limit for the energy associated to a single bit of information is just one photon. In order to enhance the transmission Efficiency we propose the use of macro qubits consisting of thousand of photons. We investigate the Fidelity of the transmission of a macro-qubit generated by quantum injected optical parametric amplification (QI-OPA) along a lossy communication channel. The realization of a QI-OPA micro-macro Teleportation protocol is considered.