Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

A review on pointing, acquisition, and tracking approaches in UAV-based FSO communication systems

R Abdelfatah, N Alshaer, T Ismail - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Springer
The challenge of tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is arising out of increasing their
market and spread usage in many applications. Miscuing UAVs can lead to potential threats …

Experimental Demonstration of Drone-Based Quantum Key Distribution

XH Tian, R Yang, HY Liu, P Fan, JN Zhang, C Gu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum state transferring has been demonstrated using drones via entanglement
distribution. Here, we demonstrate the first drone-based quantum task for quantum key …

Airborne quantum key distribution: a review

Y Xue, W Chen, S Wang, Z Yin, L Shi, Z Han - Chinese Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Remarkable achievements have been witnessed in free-space quantum key distribution
(QKD), which acts as an available approach to extend the transmission range of quantum …

Timing and synchronisation for high‐loss free‐space quantum communication with Hybrid de Bruijn Codes

P Zhang, DKL Oi, D Lowndes… - IET Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐based, long‐distance free‐space quantum key distribution has the potential to
realise global quantum secure communication networks. Detecting faint quantum optical …

Coexistence of quantum and 1.6 Tbit/s classical data over fibre-wireless-fibre terminals

A Schreier, O Alia, R Wang, R Singh… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article a fibre free-space fibre link that allows a quantum key distribution (QKD) signal
and high-speed data to be transmitted in a single optical beam is presented. This setup has …

Urban air mobility—a 6G use case?

S Ansari, A Taha, K Dashtipour, Y Sambo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The increasing popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has resulted in exponential
growth of the market owing to numerous applications that have been facilitated by advances …

Impact of visibility limiting conditions on satellite and high-altitude platform quantum key distribution links

E Eso, C Simmons, GS Buller, R Donaldson - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Satellite and aerial platforms are critical in the deployment of global quantum
communications networks. Currently, there remain significant challenges including …

Performance evaluation and security analysis of UAV-based FSO/CV-QKD system employing DP-QPSK/CD

N Alshaer, T Ismail - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) based on free-space optical (FSO) systems combine the
benefits of both the high data rate of the FSO and the mobility of UAV. However, cumulative …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum-correlation-based free-space optical link with an active reflector

D Kim, D Lim, K Park, YS Ihn - Current Applied Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a quantum-correlation-based free-space optical (FSO) link over 250 m using an
outdoor active reflector 125 m from the transceiver station. The performance of free-space …