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Jeffrey H. Shapiro.
Guha, Saikat, 1980-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2014-06-13T22:30:55Z
2014-06-13T22:30:55Z
2004
2004
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87908
55693704
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
MIT Institute Archives copy has MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics t.p.
Also issued with MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics t.p. preceding thesis t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116).
Exploring the limits to reliable communication rates over quantum channels has been the primary focus of many researchers over the past few decades. In the present work, the classical information carrying capacity of the free-space quantum optical channel has been studied thoroughly in both the far-field and near-field propagation regimes. Results have been obtained for the optimal capacity, in which information rate is maximized over both transmitter encodings and detection schemes at the receiver, for the entanglement-assisted capacity, and also for sub-optimal systems that employ specific transmitter and receiver structures. For the above cases, several new broadband results have been obtained for capacity in the presence of both diffraction limited loss and additive fluctuations emanating from a background blackbody radiation source at thermal equilibrium.
by Saikat Guha.
S.M.
116 leaves
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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