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Published September 12, 2011 | Published
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Influence of atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of quantum states of light using plane-wave encoding

Abstract

We consider the possibility of performing quantum key distribution (QKD) by encoding information onto individual photons using plane-wave basis states. We compare the results of this calculation to those obtained by earlier workers, who considered encoding using OAM-carrying vortex modes of the field. We find theoretically that plane-wave encoding is less strongly influenced by atmospheric turbulence than is OAM encoding, with potentially important implications for free-space quantum key distribution.

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© 2011 Optical Society of America. Received 26 Jul 2011; revised 18 Aug 2011; accepted 19 Aug 2011; published 2 Sep 2011. We gratefully acknowledge valuable discussions with A. Jha, J. Leach, M. Padgett, D. Gauthier, G. Tyler, M. Gruneisen, and W. Miller. We gratefully acknowledge support from the DARPA/DSO InPho program. SMB also thanks the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation for support.

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