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In quantum communication systems, the precise estimation of the detector's response to the incoming light is necessary to avoid security breaches. The typical working regime uses a free-running single-photon avalanche diode in combination…

Receiver sensitivity is a particularly important metric in optical communication links operating at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), for example in deep-space communication, since it directly limits the maximum achievable reach and data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Ravikiran Kakarla , Mikael Mazur , Jochen Schröder , Peter A. Andrekson

This paper presents a novel approach using multiple linear regression to process transient signals from silicon photomultipliers. The method provides excellent noise suppression and pulse detection in scenarios with a high pulse count rate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Wolfgang Schmailzl , Claudio Piemonte , Erika Garutti , Walter Hansch

For space-based laser communications, when the mean photon number per received optical pulse is much smaller than one, there is a large gap between communications capacity achievable with a receiver that performs individual pulse-by-pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Narayanan Rengaswamy , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Saikat Guha , Henry D. Pfister

Optical communication is the standard for high-bandwidth information transfer in today's digital age. The increasing demand for bandwidth has led to the maturation of coherent transceivers that use phase- and amplitude-modulated optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 John Crossman , Spencer Dimitroff , Lukasz Cincio , Mohan Sarovar

The measurement of the photon number distribution (PND) allows one to extract metrics of non-classicality of fundamental and technological relevance, but in principle it requires the use of detectors with photon number resolving (PNR)…

The use of C-band wavelengths in the field of quantum communication has grown significantly, driving the need for versatile detection solutions, especially in the low intensity domain. Among the desirable features for such detectors,…

We measure the reliability of signals at three levels within the blowfly visual system, and present a theoretical framework for analyzing the experimental results, starting from the Poisson process. We find that blowfly photoreceptors, up…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck , William Bialek

Ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology, such as optical time domain multiplexing or optical signal processing is a key point for increasing the communication capacity. The system performances are strongly related to pulse…

Boson sampling is a leading candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage in photonic systems. Despite significant experimental and theoretical progress, a characterization of its output statistics remains incomplete. This is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Hela Mhiri , Hugo Thomas , Léo Monbroussou , Ulysse Chabaud , Zoë Holmes , Elham Kashefi

We have simulated the time evolution of the photon number distribution in a semiconductor quantum dot-microcavity system driven by chirped laser pulses and compare with unchirped results. When phonon interactions with the dot are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 M. Cosacchi , T. Seidelmann , F. Ungar , M. Cygorek , A. Vagov , V. M. Axt

Single electron tunneling and its transport statistics have been studied for some time using high precision charge detectors. However, this type of detection requires advanced lithography, optimized material systems and low temperatures…

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines is considered. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed and its…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Reza Mosayebi , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

A Pulse-Compression Probing (PCP) method is applied in time-domain to identify an equivalent circuit model of a distribution network as seen from the transmission grid. A Pseudo-Random Binary Pulse Train (PRBPT) is injected as a voltage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Nicholas Piaquadio , N. Eva Wu , Morteza Sarailoo , Jianzhuang Huang

We proposed and demonstrated an optical pulse sampling method for photonic blind source separation. It can separate large bandwidth of mixed signals by small sampling frequency, which can reduce the workload of digital signal processing.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Taichu Shi , Yang Qi , Weipeng Zhang , Paul Prucnal , Ben Wu

We develop a photonic description of short, one-dimensional electromagnetic pulses, specifically in the language of electrical transmission lines. Current practice in quantum technology, using arbitrary waveform generators, can readily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Evangelos Varvelis , Debjyoti Biswas , David P. DiVincenzo

One of the optimization goals of a particle accelerator is to reach the highest possible beam peak current. For that to happen the electron bunch propagating through the accelerator should be kept relatively short along the direction of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-28 Aleksander Mielczarek , Dariusz Makowski , Andrzej Napieralski , Christopher Gerth , Bernd Steffen

In this paper, we perform receiver design for a diffusive molecular communication environment. Our model includes flow in any direction, sources of information molecules in addition to the transmitter, and enzymes in the propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

A pulsed source of entangled photons is desirable for some applications. Yet, such a source has intrinsic problems arising from the simultaneous arrival of the signal and noise photons to the detectors. These problems are analyzed and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mónica B. Agüero , Alejandro A. Hnilo , Marcelo G. Kovalsky