Table 1 Base parameters for the simulation.
From: Simulating quantum repeater strategies for multiple satellites
Detector efficiency | \({\eta }_{{{{{\det }}}}}\) | 0.7 |
Memory efficiency | ηmem | 0.8 |
Dark count probability | pd | 10−6 |
Brightness of sky | k × Hb | 10−7 × 150 W/(m2Srμm) |
Dephasing time | Tdp | 100 ms |
Cutoff time | tcut | \(\max (0.1\times {T}_{{{{{{{{\rm{dp}}}}}}}}},4\times d/c)\) |
Number of memory modes | n | 1000 |
Sender aperture radius | Rsender | 15 cm |
Receiver aperture radius | Rreceiver | 50 cm |
Beam divergence half-angle | θd | 3 μrad |
Pointing error standard deviation | σp | 10−6 |
Orbital height | h | 400 km |
