Coherent photodetection with applications in quantum communications and cryptography

F. J. Mendieta; A. Arvizu; R. Muraoka; P. Gallion; J. Sanchez

doi:10.1117/12.848861

3 December 2009 Coherent photodetection with applications in quantum communications and cryptography

F. J. Mendieta, A. Arvizu, R. Muraoka, P. Gallion, J. Sanchez

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Proceedings Volume 7499, Seventh Symposium Optics in Industry; 749905 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848861
Event: Seventh Symposium on Optics in Industry, 2009, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

We present an application of coherent homodyne detection to the problem of low photon number communications and cryptography. As the coherent demodulation of an optical field requires the measurement of its (non commutating) inphase and quadrature components, we present the structure and operation of an 8-port optical hybrid comprising 2 balanced homodyne detection structures, for the simultaneous measurement of the 2 quadratures. We analyze this receiver operating with a strong local oscillator field, when the received field is in weak coherent states, with digital phase modulation: we obtain the homodyne statistics and the uncertainty product in the presence of vacuum noises from the input signal port and unused ports and discuss the increase in uncertainty due to the simultaneous measurements of the quadratures. We obtain the signal to noise ratio as well of the bit error rate performance for binary phase shift keying and discuss the departure from the standard quantum limit.

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F. J. Mendieta, A. Arvizu, R. Muraoka, P. Gallion, and J. Sanchez "Coherent photodetection with applications in quantum communications and cryptography", Proc. SPIE 7499, Seventh Symposium Optics in Industry, 749905 (3 December 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848861

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