THIS PROJECT HAS TWO PRIMARY COMPONENTS CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST RUDIMENTARY FREE-SPACE QUANTUM NETWORK (USING DRONE-BASED QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY TO DISTRIBUTE FREQUENCYHOPPING CODES) AND THE INVESTIGATION OF EQUIMODULAR-QUANTUM-STATE-ENABLED INFORMATION PROCESSING PROTOCOLS WHICH MAY BE IMPLEMENTED USING OUR EXISTING SUPERDENSE TELEPORTATION EXPERIMENT. WE FURTHER DIVIDE EACH COMPONENT INTO TWO ~YEAR-LONG PHASES. A. DRONE-BASED QUANTUM NETWORK THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS A RECONFIGURABLE NETWORK OF 3 OR MORE SMALL (<55 LB) MULTI-ROTOR DRONES EXCHANGING KEY MATERIAL VIA A MODIFIED BB84 QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL OVER A FREE-SPACE OPTICAL CHANNEL. THIS REQUIRES THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAST AND LIGHTWEIGHT SOURCES OF POLARIZED PHOTONS WITH NO SIDE CHANNEL LEAKAGE MINIATURIZATION OF TIME-TAGGING ELECTRONICS AND SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBUST SIGNAL ACQUISITION AND POINTING AND TRACKING SYSTEM. PHASE I WILL DO THIS FOR A SINGLE PAIR OF DRONES; IN PHASE II WE WILL ADDRESS THE MORE CHALLENGING DESIGN OF DRONES THAT CAN ACT AS TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS AND MOVE TO =3 DRONES THE MINIMUM NUMBER TO EXPLORE NON-TRIVIAL RECONFIGURABLE QUANTUM NETWORKS. B. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF APPLICATIONS OF EQUIMODULAR QUANTUM STATES THIS PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF TWO PHASES. IN THE FIRST PHASE WE WILL EXPLORE AND DOCUMENT THE QUANTUM INFORMATIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE USING LINEAR OPTICS IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR SUPERDENSE TELEPORTATION SYSTEM WHICH ALLOWS THE TRANSMISSION OF QUQUART EQUIMODULAR STATES BETWEEN REMOTE PARTIES. WITH THIS INFORMATION WE WILL COLLABORATE WITH ELEANOR RIEFFEL TO DETERMINE A SALIENT AND FEASIBLE EXTENSION TO OUR SUPERDENSE TELEPORTATION SYSTEM IN THE AREA OF VERIFIED QUANTUM ALGORITHMS OR BLIND QUANTUM COMPUTING. IN THE SECOND PHASE WE WILL CREATE A PROOFOF- PRINCIPLE DEMONSTRATION OF THIS QUANTUM COMMUNICATION TASK. WHEN COMBINED WITH OUR WORK ON SUPERDENSE TELEPORTATION (SDT) THIS WILL SHOW THE ABILITY FOR REMOTE PARTIES TO COMMUNICATE QUANTUM STATES AND USE THEM AS RESOURCES FOR A RELEVANT QUANTUM INFORMATION TASK. FINALLY WE WILL USE THE CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES OF THIS DEMONSTRATION TO DESIGN A SECOND-GENERATION EXPERIMENT.