• DocumentCode
    161630
  • Title

    M-ary phase shift keying receiver beating the standard quantum limit for any signal power

  • Author

    Muller, Christian R. ; Leven, Andreas ; Bulow, Henning ; Schmalen, Laurent ; Leuchs, Gerd ; Marquardt, Christoph

  • Author_Institution
    Max Planck Inst. for the Sci. of Light, Erlangen, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We analyze a novel quantum receiver for M-ary phase-shift keyed signals that outperforms the standard quantum limit for any signal power. We provide a detailed analysis of its robustness against realistic imperfections and discuss the achievable mutual information.
  • Keywords
    optical modulation; optical receivers; phase shift keying; quantum communication; M-ary phase shift keying receiver; M-ary phase-shift keyed signals; quantum receiver; signal power; standard quantum limit; Detectors; Error probability; Mutual information; Phase shift keying; Photonics; Receivers; Standards;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964182
  • Filename
    6964182