Sub-shot-noise-limit discrimination of on-off keyed coherent signals via a quantum receiver with a superconducting transition edge sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 8107-8114

  Tsujino, Kenji ^a,b   Fukuda, Daiji ^c   Fujii, Go ^c,d   Inoue, Shuichiro ^d   Fujiwara, Mikio ^a   Takeoka, Masahiro ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

AVERAGE ERRORS; COHERENT SIGNALS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; INTERFERENCE VISIBILITY; ON-OFF KEYED; SUB-SHOT NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 77950896687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008107     Document Type: Article

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