TY - CONF T1 - Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability T2 - Frontiers in Optics 2020 Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rahul Bhadani A1 - Ivan B. Djordjevic A1 - Jonathan Sprinkle A1 - Saikat Guha ED - Michael Grace KW - Photonics KW - Photonics Information Theory KW - Quantum Optics AB -

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.

JF - Frontiers in Optics 2020 PB - The Optical Society of America CY - Online SN - 978-1-943580-80-4 UR - https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=FiO-2020-JM6B.29 ER -