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Single-shot discrimination of coherent states beyond the standard quantum limit

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.421646
AuthorSearch for: 1ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-2245; Search for: ; Search for: ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3797-412X; Search for: ; Search for: ; Search for: ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4714-0575
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Security and Disruptive Technologies
FormatText, Article
Subjectcoherent states; diode lasers; matched filtering; photons; quantum communications; quantum key distribution
Abstract
The discrimination of coherent states is a key task in optical communication and quantum key distribution protocols. In this work, we use a photon-number-resolving detector, the transition-edge sensor, to discriminate binary-phase-shifted coherent states at a telecom wavelength. Owing to its dynamic range and high efficiency, we achieve a bit error probability that unconditionally exceeds the standard quantum limit (SQL) by up to 7.7 dB. The improvement to the SQL persists for signals containing up to approximately seven photons on average and is achieved in a single shot (i.e., without measurement feedback), thus making our approach compatible with larger bandwidths.
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PublisherOptica Publishing Group
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  • Optics Letters 46, no. 11 (17 May 2021): 2565–2568.
LanguageEnglish
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