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Abstract

We show that even under ideal conditions (no thermal noise or dark current, continuously-variable intensity lasers, perfectly accurate photon counters}, R, is, at most, one nat per photon in optical systems which use photon counting techniques. Since even under less ideal circumstances channel capacity is infinite, this is a surprising and in some ways disappointing result.

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Volume
42-53
Published
October 15, 1979
Pages
62–65
File Size
330.6 KB