Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability
Jan 1, 2020·
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Rahul Bhadani
Michael Grace
Ivan B. Djordjevic
Jonathan Sprinkle
Saikat Guha
We find the capacity attained by the Kennedy receiver for coherent-state BPSK when the symbol prior p and pre-detection displacement $eta$ are optimized. The optimal $eta$ is different than what minimizes error probability for single-shot BPSK state discrimination.
