On the capacity of the discrete-time poisson channel

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 303-322

  Lapidoth, Amos ^a   Moser, Stefan M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Channel capacity; Direct detection; High signal to noise ratio (SNR); Optical communication; Photon; Poisson channel; Pulse amplitude modulation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; FADING (RADIO); MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

CONDITIONAL MEANS; DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPIES; DIRECT DETECTION; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR); LOWER BOUNDS; POISSON CHANNEL; POISSON RANDOM VARIABLES; UPPER BOUNDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 58249144216     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2008.2008121     Document Type: Article

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