Quantum communications offers many advantages for secure data transmission, e.g. confidentiality, integrity, eavesdropper’s detectability. Information is encoded in quantum bits (qubits), intrinsic physical properties, such as polarization of a photon. Quantum physics allows...
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The Reliability Assessment of Area PIN SI Photodiodes was a exhibition theme in the First International Symposium on Reliability of Optoelectronics for Space that took place in Cagliari Italy , between May 11 – 14, 2009. INTA, the Instituto nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial in...
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This paper describes the activities and results of an ESA-funded project concerned with the assessment of optical amplifier technologies and products for applications in fiber optic subsystems of future satellite payloads. On-board applications are briefly introduced, together...