Frontiers in Optics

Optical Hybrid-based Optimal Receiver Design for Entanglement-Assisted Communication

Rahul Kumar Bhadani, Ivan B. Djordjević

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose an optical hybrid (OH) based receiver to discriminate phase-shift-keying modulated information that is transmitted using entanglement-assisted (EA) communication. Our numerical result demonstrates that OH-based receivers perform 10% better in terms of error probability and approximately 50% in terms of Shannon’s capacity compared to the previously proposed receiver design.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2021.ftu2d.2

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