@conference {481, title = {Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability}, booktitle = {Frontiers in Optics 2020}, year = {2020}, month = {09/2020}, publisher = {The Optical Society of America}, organization = {The Optical Society of America}, address = {Online}, abstract = {

We find the capacity attained by the Kennedy receiver for coherent-state BPSK when the symbol prior $p$ and pre-detection displacement $\beta$ are optimized. The optimal $\beta$ is different than what minimizes error probability for single-shot BPSK state discrimination.

}, keywords = {Photonics, Photonics Information Theory, Quantum Optics}, isbn = {978-1-943580-80-4}, url = {https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=FiO-2020-JM6B.29}, author = {Rahul Bhadani and Ivan B. Djordjevic and Jonathan Sprinkle and Saikat Guha}, editor = {Michael Grace} }