Quantum Aspects of Optical Communications

Quantum limits of measurements and uncertainty principle....Pages 1-17
A quantum experiment uncertainty principle: A general 2 nd moment uncertainty relation....Pages 18-26
Quantum mechanical description of light propagation....Pages 27-31
Quantum propagation in optical fibres....Pages 32-40
The uncertainty principle in a QND measurement of photon number....Pages 41-50
Some remarks on the phase operator in quantum optics....Pages 51-58
Quantum state control and nonlinear schrődinger equation....Pages 59-67
Quantum entropy and quantum measurements....Pages 79-80
Information dynamics and its applications to optical communication processes....Pages 81-92
Information theory and quantum correlations....Pages 93-100
Physical information theory for 30 years: Basic concepts and results....Pages 101-110
Quantum nondemolition measurement in optical communication theory....Pages 111-119
Information in quantum optical communications....Pages 120-123
Statistical inference for quantum processes....Pages 125-137
A new class of quantum states: Examples and applications....Pages 138-150
Continuous non-demolition observation quantum filtering and optimal estimation....Pages 151-163
Entropy production and nonequilibrium stationarity in quantum dynamical systems....Pages 164-178
Detection theory in quantum optics and quantum stochastic calculus....Pages 179-189
Calculating photocount distributions by saddlepoint methods....Pages 191-202
Rigorous derivation of error probability in coherent optical communication....Pages 203-212
Comparison of ppam and ppm formats in photon counting channels....Pages 213-222
Optical communication with coherent squeezed state. Realization of received quantum state control....Pages 223-230
A new method for improving the bandwidth utilization efficiency in optical PPM....Pages 231-238
Properties of system using spatial multi-mode squeezer....Pages 239-248
Achievement of new quantum limit by switching of pump frequency of squeezer....Pages 249-258
Information transmission with squeezed light....Pages 259-275
Twin photons and squeezed light....Pages 276-284
A new definition and generalization of squeezed states....Pages 285-290
Squeezing of a filtered thermal field in a degenerated parametric optical amplifier....Pages 291-294
Displaced number states....Pages 295-304
Generalized quadratic generator of squeezed states....Pages 305-314
Thermal states with variances smaller than vacuum variances....Pages 315-324
Squeezing-symmetry of the balanced homodyne detector....Pages 325-330
Optical communication with novel quantum devices....Pages 331-341
Construction of modulator for quantum orthogonal signal by Bright Squeezer....Pages 342-349
Efficiency of optical modulations with coherent state....Pages 350-360
An optical system at the quantum limit of coherent detection: The wind lidar....Pages 361-366
Simulation of optimum quantum receiver....Pages 367-375
Gain, saturation and noise figure of a travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier....Pages 376-385
Oral presentation....Pages 387-387