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Energy and bandwidth efficiency optimization of quantum-enabled optical communication channels

M. V. Jabir, N. Fajar R. Annafianto, Ivan A. Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey V. Polyakov

Published May 27, 2022• 10 citations
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Abstract

Abstract We present a systematic study of quantum receivers and modulation methods enabling resource efficient quantum-enhanced optical communication. We introduce quantum-inspired modulation schemes that theoretically yield a better resource efficiency than legacy protocols. Experimentally, we demonstrate below the shot-noise limit symbol error rates for M ≤ 16 legacy and quantum-inspired communication alphabets using software-configurable optical communication time-resolving quantum receiver testbed. Further, we experimentally verify that our quantum-inspired modulation schemes boost the accuracy of practical quantum measurements and significantly optimize the combined use of energy and bandwidth for communication alphabets that are longer than M = 4 symbols.

DOI
10.1038/s41534-022-00573-9

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