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Experimental Demonstration of a Super-additive Joint Detection Optical Receiver

Jack T. Postlewaite, Chaohan Cui, Linran Fan, Saikat Guha

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We realize an optical joint-detection receiver based on fiber-optical components and single photon detection. Experimental evidence supports that the architecture can achieve super-additive communication capacity over a classical-quantum optical channel.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2025.ff119_2

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