A Refined Analysis of the Poisson Channel in the High-Photon-Efficiency Regime

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2320718MaRDI QIDQ2986292zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ligong Wang, Gregory W. Wornell

Publication date 16 May 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5767

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: We study the discrete-time Poisson channel under the constraint that its average input power (in photons per channel use) must not exceed some constant E. We consider the wideband, high-photon-efficiency extreme where E approaches zero, and where the channel's "dark current" approaches zero proportionally with E. Improving over a previously obtained first-order capacity approximation, we derive a refined approximation, which includes the exact characterization of the second-order term, as well as an asymptotic characterization of the third-order term with respect to the dark current. We also show that pulse-position modulation is nearly optimal in this regime.

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