SpooQySats: CubeSats to demonstrate quantum key distribution technologies
- Paper number
IAC-17,D5,4,4,x38936
- Author
Dr. James Grieve, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Dr. Robert Bedington, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Dr. Xueliang Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Mr. Tang Zhongkan Xavier, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Dr. Rakhitha Bandara Chandrasekara, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Mr. Sean Yau, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Dr. Tanvirul Islam, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Ms. Hong-Nhung Nguyen, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of
- Coauthor
Dr. Douglas Griffin, University of New South Wales ADFA, Australia
- Coauthor
Mr. Denis Naughton, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Coauthor
Mr. Simon Barraclough, UNSW Australia, Australia
- Coauthor
Prof. Russell Boyce, University of New South Wales ADFA, Australia
- Coauthor
Dr. Alexander Ling Euk Jin, Singapore, Republic of
- Year
2017
- Abstract
SpooQySats is a programme for establishing the space worthiness of highly-miniaturised, polarisation-entangled, photon pair sources using CubeSat nanosatellites. The sources are being developed iteratively with an early version in orbit already and improved versions soon to be launched. Once fully developed, the photon pair sources can be deployed on more advanced satellites that are equipped with optical links. These can allow for very strong security guarantees on uplink and downlink and can be used to establish a global space-based quantum key distribution network. This would enable highly secure symmetric encryption keys to be shared between optical ground stations all over the planet.
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