Performance of an Ideal Quantum Receiver of a Coherent Signal of Random Phase
- 1 May 1969
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Vol. AES-5 (3), 562-564
- https://doi.org/10.1109/taes.1969.309861
Abstract
An ideal quantum receiver is to detect a coherent narrow-band optical signal in the presence of thermal background radiation. Curves are given both of the average probability of error in a binary communication system transmitting O's (blanks) and 1's (pulses) with equal probabilities, and of the probability of detection for various fixed values of the false-alarm probability.Keywords
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