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Defense Intelligence Reference Document The Space Communication Implications Of Quantum Entanglement

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-016), dated 30 March 2010 and produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, reviews quantum entanglement and nonlocality. It asks whether they could carry observer-to-observer signals faster than light or backward in time, with real-time control of a Mars rover as an example. It finds no compelling answer yet and says the question must be settled by experiment.

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beyond the lens on the deflected path at position S2, where a pair of "cleanup" slits are
located that pass only those photons whose entangled twins passed through Si. We
note that because of the optical geometry, this imaging occurs even for waves that
pass through both of the image points and ultimately interfere.
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At the image position of each slit at S2, we place an optical fiber, as shown. The fibers
conduct the light to an optical switch, at which the light either is sent directly to two
avalanche photodiode detectors D (providing which-way information about which of the
S1 slits the photon entered) or alternatively is routed to an optical combiner C, with the
in-phase output of the combiner then detected, so that waves passing through both
slits can contribute constructively to the detection event. We note that this fiber
switching system is the fiber-optic equivalent of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
(Reference 20), in which one can activate and deactivate the last half-silvered mirror by
switching, so that which-way information can be switched on and off. (We also note
that similar fiber-combiner-detector technology could be employed after the S1 slits to
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