Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61271238 and 61475075);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20123223110003);the Natural Science Research Foundation for Universities of Jiangsu Province of China(Grant No.11KJA510002);the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology;Ministry of Education;China(Grant No.NYKL2015011);the Innovation Program of Graduate Education of Jiangsu Province;China(Grant No.KYLX0810);partially supported by Qinglan Project of Jiangsu Province;China
In this paper, we propose a measurement-device-independent quantum-key-distribution(MDI-QKD) protocol using orbital angular momentum(OAM) in free space links, named the OAM-MDI-QKD protocol. In the proposed protoc...