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We report a large area photo-diode based homodyne detector for free-space quantum coherent communication. The detector's performance is studied in terms of detection bandwidth and electronic noise for shot-noise limited quantum signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Rupesh Kumar , Igor Konieczniak , Gerald Bonner , Tim Spiller

We develop a model for an interstellar communication network that is composed of relay nodes that transmit diffraction-limited beams of photons. We provide a multi-dimensional rationale for such a network of communication in lieu of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 John Gertz , Geoffrey Marcy

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

We study distribution schemes for a polarization entangled photon pair based on a decoherence-free subspace over lossy quantum channels and propose an efficient scheme that is robust against not only collective phase noises but also general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Hidetoshi Kumagai , Takashi Yamamoto , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

The use of optical spatial modulation (OSM), which has been recently emerged as a power and bandwidth efficient pulsed modulation technique for indoor optical wireless communication, is proposed as a simple, low-complexity means of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Kostas P. Peppas , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Atmospheric turbulence generally limits free-space optical (FSO) communications, and this problem is severely exacerbated when implementing highly sensitive and spectrally efficient coherent detection. Specifically, turbulence induces power…

A central question in free-space optical communications is how to improve the transfer of information between a transmitter and receiver. The capacity of the communication channel can be increased by multiplexing of independent modes using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

Nonstationary pump-probe interaction between short laser pulses propagating in a resonant optically dense coherent medium is considered. A special attention is paid to the case, where the density of two-level particles is high enough that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Egorov , V. N. Lebedev , I. B. Mekhov , P. V. Moroshkin , I. A. Chekhonin , S. N. Bagayev

In this paper, we consider the downlink of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) single user transmission system operating in the millimeter wave outdoor narrowband channel environment. We propose a novel receive spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ahmed Raafat , Adrian Agustin , Josep Vidal

Coherent states have been increasingly considered in optical quantum communications (OQCs). With the inherent non-orthogonality of coherent states, non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) naturally lends itself to the implementation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhichao Dong , Xiaolin Zhou , Yongkang Chen , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Xin Wang

A canonical wireless communication system consists of a transmitter and a receiver. The information bit stream is transmitted after coding, modulation, and pulse shaping. Due to the effects of radio frequency (RF) impairments, channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Shilian Zheng , Shichuan Chen , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Dissipative Kerr soliton microcomb has been recognized as a promising on-chip multi-wavelength laser source for fiber optical communications, as its comb lines possess frequency and phase stability far beyond independent lasers. In the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yong Geng , Heng Zhou , Wenwen Cui , Xinjie Han , Qiang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Guangwei Deng , Qiang Zhou , Kun Qiu

Laser-light (coherent-state) modulation is sufficient to achieve the ultimate (Holevo) capacity of classical communication over a lossy and noisy optical channel, but requires a receiver that jointly detects long modulated codewords with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Masahiro Takeoka , Saikat Guha

We design and demonstrate a monolithically integrated silicon photonic multichannel optical hybrid for versatile broadband coherent reception, addressing the critical limitations of current wavelength multiplexed systems in scalability and…

Detector arrays are commonly used for free-space optical communications in deep space. Such detector arrays---by virtue of their size---help in the collection of the optical signal even when there is some misalignment between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-21 Muhammad Salman Bashir

Integrated optical transceivers, utilizing wavelength-division-multiplexing, offer a path forward for implementation of compact, high-bandwidth and energy-efficient interconnects for future data centers. Here we report the demonstration of…

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Free space optical communication techniques have been the subject of numerous investigations in recent years, with multiple missions expected to fly in the near future. Existing methods require high pointing accuracies, drastically driving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Sihao Huang , Haowen Lin

In multi-robot systems, traditional radio frequency (RF) communication struggles with contention and jamming. Optical communication offers a strong alternative. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from limited frame rates,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Harmeet Dhillon , Pranay Katyal , Brendan Long , Rohan Walia , Matthew Cleaveland , Kevin Leahy