%0 Conference Paper %B Frontiers in Optics 2020 %D 2020 %T Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability %A Rahul Bhadani %A Ivan B. Djordjevic %A Jonathan Sprinkle %A Saikat Guha %E Michael Grace %K Photonics %K Photonics Information Theory %K Quantum Optics %X

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.

%B Frontiers in Optics 2020 %I The Optical Society of America %C Online %8 09/2020 %@ 978-1-943580-80-4 %G eng %U https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=FiO-2020-JM6B.29