title: Secure information transport by transverse localization of light.
abstract: A single-photon beating with itself can produce even the most elaborate optical fringe pattern. However, the large amount of information enclosed in such a pattern is typically inaccessible, since the complete distribution can be visualized only after many detections. In fact this limitation is only true for delocalized patterns. Here we demonstrate how reconfigurable localized optical patterns allow to encode up to 6 bits of information in disorder-induced high transmission channels, even using a small number of photon counts. We developed a quantum key distribution scheme for fiber communication in which high information capacity is achieved through position and momentum complementarity.
authors.affiliation: Center for Life Nano Science@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena, 291 00161 Roma (RM) Italia.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leonetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karbasi
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mafi
authors.affiliation: Dep. Physics University Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma Italy.
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: DelRe
authors.affiliation: ISC-CNR and Department of Physics, University Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conti