Author:
Acosta Valentina Marulanda,Dequal Daniele,Schiavon Matteo,Montmerle-Bonnefois Aurélie,Lim Caroline B.,Conan Jean-Marc,Diamanti Eleni
Abstract
We demonstrate the gain brought by adaptive optics for space-ground QKD links. Refined modeling of turbulence, adaptive optics and QKD ,including finite-size effects, shows improvement by several orders of magnitude of the secret key rate.