Satellite Quantum Communications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 7746
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Long distance quantum communications are of fundamental importance today, due to their applications to secure communication, such as quantum key distribution, quantum authentication and quantum digital signature, as well as to fundamental physics, like long distance entanglement distribution, quantum teleportation, and the study of gravitational effects on quantum states. Besides these applications, quantum communications are a fundamental prerequisite for the realization of quantum networks, toward a future quantum internet. While quantum communications have been the object of a widespread interest by the scientific community, the reach of ground-based demonstrators is limited so far to a few hundred kilometers, due to the unavoidable attenuation of light during the propagation in optical fibers. For this reason, for more than two decades, satellite communication links have been studied in hopes of solving this problem, both theoretically and with proof of principle demonstrators. The outstanding results obtained by the Chinese Quantum Science Satellite (QSS) have shown how the field is now ready to move to the next step, opening the era of satellite quantum communication. These results have attracted the interest of the scientific community, governments, and stakeholders, and several other missions are foreseen in the next future, aiming at expanding even further the results obtained so far.
The MDPI journal Sensors has decided to address this flourishing research topic by launching a Special Issue dedicated to satellite quantum communication. This issue will gather both theoretical and experimental contributions in this emerging field. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Satellite quantum terminals
- New mission proposals
- Applications of satellite quantum communication
- Investigation of gravitational effects on quantum communication
- Link budget estimation
- Atmospheric effect mitigation
- Quantum internet and the role of satellite links
Dr. Daniele Dequal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Satellite quantum communication
- Satellite laser communication
- Optical communication
- Free space optics
- Quantum key distribution
- Quantum teleportation
- Space technology
- Space-based quantum optics
- Phenomenology of quantum gravity
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