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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

M-state frequency shift keying discrimination below the standard quantum limit

Ivan A. Burenkov, Sergey V. Polyakov

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a new quantum receiver based on frequency-shift keying encoding. We show that with the appropriate discrimination strategy the accuracy of this method significantly exceeds that of phase-shift keying-based quantum receivers.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.ftu3f.5

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