Towards optimal capacity-achieving transceivers with photonic integrated circuits
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Prabhu, Mihika
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Dirk R. Englund.
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Optical communication systems have many advantages over communication systems that operate in the radio-frequency range, including decreased size, weight, and power consumption and increased bandwidth. As a result, optical communication systems are emerging as the ideal choice in many resource-constrained links such as those deployed on spacecraft. This thesis presents progress on development of a programmable nanophotonic processor (PNP) for implementing a high-fidelity reconfigurable optical transceiver at the telecommunications wavelength. By encoding information in multiple spatial modes and detecting jointly over the modes using a unitary transform prior to detection, one can in principle attain Holevo-limited channel capacity in the low mean photon number regime. Since the PNP offers dynamic reprogrammability, one can also, in principle, correct for wavefront distortion in the channel. We present a setup, calibration protocols, and preliminary results towards a turbulence-resistant integrated BPSK transmitter and joint detection receiver channel that achieves superadditive channel capacity in the low mean photon number regime.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-65).
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2018Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.