United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

John D Lekki

Quang-Viet Nguyen

Jun Kojima

Roger P Tokars

Brian E Vyhnalek

Evan J Katz

Ian R Nemitz

Yousef Kamal Chahine

An apparatus includes a first pair of entanglement sources, a first Bell state measurement (BSM) device, at least one memory, a herald output, and at least one optical switch. The first pair of entanglement sources includes a first entanglement source and a second entanglement source configured to generate a first pair of entangled photons and a second pair of entangled photons at the same time. The first BSM device is connected with the first pair of entanglement sources to detect photons generated by each of the first entanglement source and the second entanglement source. The at least one memory is connected with the first pair of entanglement sources to store photons generated by the first entanglement source and the second entanglement source. The herald output includes an electronic circuit connected with the first BSM device for determining a number of photons detected by the first BSM device.

Heralded source of entangled photon pairs

A self-diagnostic accelerometer (SDA) field programmable gate array (FPGA) may be capable of real time or near-real time diagnostic processing to determine potential accelerometer issues during flight or other mission critical operational situations. The SDA FPGA may determine accelerometer structural health and an attachment condition using an electronics system that is smaller, more energy efficient, and more cost effective than previous diagnostic tools. Advantages of the system may include diagnosing sensors automatically, immediately, actively (i.e., confirming the fault), and consistently, without the influence of a human operator. Customizable SDA algorithms may be adjusted to the specific needs of the sensor/environment.

Self diagnostic accelerometer field programmable gate array (SDA FPGA)

A system and method is disclosed wherein optical signals are coded in a transmitter by tuning or modulating the interbeam delay time (which modulates the fourth-order coherence) between pairs of entangled photons. The photon pairs are either absorbed or not absorbed (transparent) by an atomic or molecular fluorescer in a receiver, depending on the inter-beam delay that is introduced in the entangled photon pairs. Upon the absorption, corresponding fluorescent optical emissions follow at a certain wavelength, which are then detected by a photon detector. The advantage of the disclosed system is that it eliminates a need of a coincidence counter to realize the entanglement-based secure optical communications because the absorber acts as a coincidence counter for entangled photon pairs.

Secured optical communications using quantum entangled two-photon transparency modulation

An optical communications transmitter includes a oscillator source, producing a clock signal, a data source, producing a data signal, a modulating circuit for modulating the clock signal using the data signal to produce modulating signals, optical drivers, receiving the modulating signals and producing optical driving signals based on the modulating signals and optical emitters, producing small numbers of photons based on the optical driving signals. The small numbers of photons are time-correlated between at least two separate optical transmission wavelengths and quantum states and the small number of photons can be detected by a receiver to reform the data signal.

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