Performance of an Ideal Quantum Receiver of a Coherent Signal of Random Phase |
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| Authors: | Helstrom CW |
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| Institution: | Dept. of Appl. Electrophys. University of California, San Diego La Jolla, Calif. 92037; |
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| Abstract: | An ideal quantum receiver is to detect a coherent narrow-band optical signal in the presence of thermal background radiation. Curves are given both of the average probability of error in a binary communication system transmitting O's (blanks) and 1's (pulses) with equal probabilities, and of the probability of detection for various fixed values of the false-alarm probability. |
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