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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2021
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Andrew Lord, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Abstract
There is herein disclosed a computer-implemented method of optimizing a QKD system, the QKD system being adapted to perform a QKD session that involves the propagation of a plurality of photons from a first device to a second device, one of the first and second devices being located aboard a satellite in orbit, the method including running a machine learning algorithm, inputs of the machine learning algorithm comprising one or more values of one or more of the following factors: atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of a path from the first device to the second device; a spatial separation of the first device and the second device; and a measure of the performance of the first and/or the second device, wherein the output of the algorithm is an estimate of the rate at which the first device and the second device generate bits of a quantum key.