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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 13, Pages 19305-19318Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.426556
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- National Science Foundation [1941583]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-19-1-2189]
- Div Of Engineering Education and Centers
- Directorate For Engineering [1941583] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper theoretically analyzes spatial-mode-multiplexed, decoy-state BB84 quantum key distribution systems with transmitter modes being either a collection of phase-tilted, flat-top focused beams (FBs) or Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes. Despite the QKD rate penalty suffered by FBs relative to LG modes in vacuum propagation, their potential ease of implementation makes them an attractive alternative. Furthermore, in the presence of turbulence, FB modes may outperform LG modes.
In the diffraction-limited near-field propagation regime, free-space optical quantum key distribution (QKD) systems can employ multiple spatial modes to improve their key rate. This improvement can be effected by means of high-dimensional QKD or by spatial-mode multiplexing of independent QKD channels, with the latter, in general, offering higher key rates. Here, we theoretically analyze spatial-mode-multiplexed, decoy-state BB84 whose transmitter mode set is either a collection of phase-tilted, flat-top focused beams (FBs) or the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes. Although for vacuum propagation the FBs suffer a QKD rate penalty relative to the LG modes, their potential ease of implementation make them an attractive alternative. Moreover, in the presence of turbulence, the FB modes may outperform the LG modes. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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