Abstract

In this paper, the free-space optics (FSO) quantum backscatter communication (QBC), inspired by the quantum illumination concept, is described. In this method, the transmitter generates entangled photon pairs. The signal photon is transmitted in the direction of the modulated retro reflector (MRR) or the tag antenna, and the idler photon is moved to the receiver. The MRR communicates by modulating the received photon and retro-reflecting it back to the receiver. QBC could provide performance improvement in comparison to conventional backscatter communications. In this work, a mathematical model of the FSO QBC systems is derived. In an FSO system, the pointing direction jitter is a stochastic process that reduces the communication performance. In this paper, optimization of FSO QBC performance is proposed to minimize the error probability. This could be done by adapting the telescope gain to jitter a standard deviation amplitude.

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