Current projects
QR.X
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2021 - July 2024
OPEN QKD
Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme
The project aims at demonstrating a new use-case of quantum key distribution (QKD) for protecting the distribution of digital movie data in a real-world scenario.
OpenQKD BerlinaleQ project page
Duration: October 2021 – March 2022
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QuNET
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: October 2019 - December 2026
Past projects
QuPAD
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: March 2019 - February 2021
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Q.Link.X
Quantum-Link-Extension
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2018 - July 2021
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ONUBLA
Assessment of access availability of space-ground optical links.
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: July 2017 - July 2018
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NanoPhot
Collaborative research centre 787
Co-funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: January 2016 - December 2019
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VALIMOS
Validation of turbulence mitigation techniques for high-data-rate optical links
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: April 2014 - December 2019
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Terabit Free-Space Demo
Partner: DLR
In 2016, 1.7 Tb/s were transmitted over > 10 km through the atmosphere and 2 x 1.7 Tb/s were transmitted over 400 m at HHI in eye-safe conditions.
12 m-OCA
Type: ESA
Partner: MT Mechatronics
The objective is to reliably establish the feasibility of a
10-12 m class single-aperture optical antenna for deep-space communications within stringent financial limits and to elaborate an advanced conceptual design as a basis for its future development.