Classical capacity of free-space optical communication

Authors:
Vittorio Giovannetti;Saikat Guha;Seth Lloyd;Lorenzo Maccone;Jeffrey H. Shapiro;Brent J. Yen;Horace P. Yuen
Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA;Northwestern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Evanston IL
Venue:
Quantum Information & Computation
Year:
2004

Information rate loss from radiation decoherence

ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3

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The classical-information capacity of lossy bosonic channels is studied, with emphasis on the far-field free space channel.