We present a bidirectional quantum communication system based on optical phase conjugation for achieving fully autocompensating high-dimensional quantum cryptography. We prove that random phase shifts and couplings among 2N spatial and polarization optical modes described by SU(2N) transformations due to perturbations are autocompensated after a single round trip between Alice and Bob. Bob can use a source of single photons or, alternatively, coherent states and then Alice attenuates them up to a single photon level, and thus non-perturbated 1-qudit states are generated for high-dimensional QKD protocols, as the BB84 one, of a higher security.
@article{arxiv.2009.13915,
title = {Fully autocompensating high-dimensional quantum cryptography by optical phase conjugation},
author = {Jesús Liñares and Xesús Prieto-Blanco and Daniel Balado and Gabriel M. Carral},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13915},
year = {2021}
}