A generalized Dolinar receiver with inconclusive results
Kenji Nakahira, Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda · AIP conference proceedings · 2014
We investigate the implementation of a measurement for binary optical coherent states that minimizes the error probability with a fixed rate of an inconclusive result.We find that the optimal measurement for binary optical coherent states with any probability of an inconclusive result can be implemented using only a beam splitter, a local coherent light source, a photon detector, and a feedback circuit, even though the measurement is generally not projective.