公开(公告)号：US20230171003A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17537962

申请日：2021-11-30

Applicant: The Aerospace Corporation

Inventor： Uttam PAUDEL ,  Noel DE LA CRUZ ,  Andrew K. MOLLNER ,  Alexander CHRISTIDIS

IPC: H04B10/85 ,  G06N10/60 ,  H04L9/08 ,  H04B10/40

CPC classification number: H04B10/85 ,  G06N10/60 ,  H04L9/0852 ,  H04B10/40

Abstract: A reconfigurable QKD transceiver capable of transmitting and/or receiving qubits using a single optical hardware platform. This reconfigurable QKD transceiver enables various link scenarios specially for LEO-ground network, where the satellites have limited engagement time with a ground station. The reconfigurable QKD transceiver may reduce the optics SWaP by 50 percent and may allow for new mission scenarios that were otherwise not feasible with a transmitter only architecture or receiver only architecture.