Noise, errors and information in quantum amplification

Details Noise, errors and information in quantum amplification Noise, errors and information in quantum amplification

1998-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801065v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. B11 (1997) 3385

Physics

Quantum Physics

20 pages, 4 eps figures, 41K gzipped tar file

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We analyze and compare the characterization of a quantum device in terms of noise, transmitted bit-error-rate (BER) and mutual information, showing how the noise description is meaningful only for Gaussian channels. After reviewing the description of a quantum communication channel, we study the insertion of an amplifier. We focus attention on the case of direct detection, where the linear amplifier has a 3 decibels noise figure, which is usually considered an unsurpassable limit, referred to as the standard quantum limit (SQL). Both noise and BER could be reduced using an ideal amplifier, which is feasible in principle. However, just a reduction of noise beyond the SQL does not generally correspond to an improvement of the BER or of the mutual information. This is the case of a laser amplifier, where saturation can greatly reduce the noise figure, although there is no corresponding improvement of the BER. Such mechanism is illustrated on the basis of Monte Carlo simulations.

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