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

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2320718zbMATH Open1360.94266arXiv1401.5767MaRDI QIDQ2986292FDOQ2986292

Authors: Ligong Wang, Gregory W. Wornell 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

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

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.

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)

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