SAMOP 2023 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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QI: Fachverband Quanteninformation
QI 6: Poster I (joint session QI/Q)
QI 6.21: Poster
Montag, 6. März 2023, 16:30–19:00, Empore Lichthof
Night Sky Background Measurement for Quantum Key Distribution — •Rengaraj Govindaraj1,2, Michael Auer1,2,3, Adomas Baliuka1,2, Peter Freiwang1,2, Lukas Knips1,2,4, and Harald Weinfurter1,2,4 — 1Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80799, München, Germany — 2Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, 80799, München, Germany — 3Universität der Bundeswehr, 85577 Neubiberg, Germany — 4Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching, Germany
Free-space satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) enables two authenticated parties - potentially separated by global distances - to exchange a secret key that can be used for symmetric cryptography. However, the performance of free-space QKD crucially depends on the quantum bit error ratio (QBER) and hence on the contributions of background light sources such as sun or stars as well as artificial light sources. As those noise contributions vary with time of day, season, weather and location, their study is important for planning the location and performance of ground station’s future QKD missions. We here present our experimental method and device to map the night sky background in terms of its brightness in the spectral bands around 850nm and 1550nm and discuss the implications for satellite-based QKD.