Experimental Study of Free-space Beam Propagation for Single-photon Quantum Communications
Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi, Ivan Capraro, Alberto Dall’Arche, Andrea Tomaello, Francesca Gerlin · Research in Optical Sciences · 2012
We report on the study the propagation of a laser beam over a 144 free-space link. We report on the losses of the channel, the temporal scintillation of the intensity and, by attenuating the beam, the statistic of arrival of single photons.