Wave Electronics and its Application in Information and Telecommunication Systems (WECONF)
Information Transfer by Optical Signals
Oleg D. Moskaletz
Abstract
Based on the critical estimation of modern information theory and signal theory, the necessity of developing the physical aspect of signal theory, which is based on an abrupt change in the energy of an optical signal during its formation, is substantiated. It is shown that the inflow of information in time has a quantum nature and is due to the action of the photon production operators. Quantum forms of optical signals were obtained and, based on the methods of communication theory, a transition was made to the classical approximation of an optical signal. The role of the probabilistic nature of quantum processes in the stochastic essence of the optical signal is noted.