Abbreviations
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory
ANL Argonne National Laboratory
AO Adaptive optics
APD Avalanche photodiode
ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency Network
BNL Brookhaven National Lab
BQC Blind quantum computing
Caltech California Institute of Technology
CQE Chicago Quantum Exchange
CRB Cramér-Rao bound
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
dB Decibel
DI Device-independent
DiQC Distributed quantum computing
DoD Department of Defense
DoE Department of Energy
DQC Delegated quantum computing
DSOC Deep Space Optical Communication
DSQL Deep Space Quantum Link
ESA European Space Agency
FI Fisher information
GEO Geosynchronous orbit
GPS Global Positioning System
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
IEQNET Illinois-Express Quantum Network
ISS International Space Station
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LCRD Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
LEO Low-Earth orbit
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
MCP-PMT Microchannel plate PMT
MDI QKD Measurement-device-independent QKD
MEO Medium-Earth orbit
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MOT Magneto-optical trap
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
MZI Mach-Zehnder interferometer
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEN Near-Earth network
NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technologies
NQI National Quantum Initiative
NSF National Science Foundation
PAT Pointing, acquisition, and tracking
PEACOQ Performance-Enhanced Array for Counting Optical Quanta
PMT Photomultiplier tube
PQC Post-quantum cryptography
QCRB Quantum Cramér-Rao bound
qEDISON Quantum Entanglement Distribution in Space Optical Network
QFI Quantum Fisher information
QIS Quantum information science
QKD Quantum key distribution
QME Quantum multi-parameter estimation
QPE Quantum parameter estimation
qubit Quantum bit
RSA Rivest–Shamir–Adleman
SBU Stony Brook University
SCaN Space Communications and Navigation
SFWM Spontaneous four-wave mixing
SNSPD Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
SOR Starfire Optical Range
SPAD Single-photon avalanche diode
SPDC Spontaneous parametric down-conversion
SQL Standard quantum limit
TF QKD Twin-field QKD
UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle
VQC Verifiable quantum computin