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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Four-state discrimination beyond heterodyne detection

Christian R. Mueller, Mario A. Usuga, Christoffer Wittmann, Masahiro Takeoka, Christoph Marquardt, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a hybrid discrimination scheme for the quadrature phase shift keying protocol, which outperforms heterodyne detection for any signal power. The discrimination is composed of a quadrature measurement, feed forward and photon detection.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2012.qtu1e.3

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