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Accession Number:
AD0645640
Title:
QUANTUM LIMITATIONS TO ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL MEASUREMENTS.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Corporate Author:
DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Report Date:
1966-12-01
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
The report describes work on the development of an effective statistical communication theory for optical communications. Photodetection statistics have been computed for an optical illumination consisting of a cw signal and narrowband noise and a formula obtained for the information transmittable by an optical detector. Quantum electrodynamics has been used to evaluate the statistics of a narrowband optical communication system and to compute the statistics of a coupled mode system. The report summarizes this work and lists publications during the grant period. Author
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE