This tutorial reviews the Holevo capacity limit as a universal tool to analyze the ultimate
transmission rates in a variety of optical communication scenarios, ranging from …

The modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence began with the seminal publications of
Cocconi & Morrison and Schwartz & Townes, who proposed searching for narrowband …

Deep-space optical communication links operate under severely limited signal power,
approaching the photon-starved regime that requires a receiver capable of measuring …

The information capacity of an optical channel under power constraints is ultimately limited
by the quantum nature of transmitted signals. We discuss currently available and emerging …

We discuss conceptual designs for structured optical receivers that can alleviate the
requirement for high peak-to-average power ratio in photon-starved optical communication …

We propose a simple architecture based on multimode quantum memories for collective
readout of classical information keyed using a pair coherent states, exemplified by the well …

In optical communication, the transmitter encodes information into a set of light states
defined by the modulation format, selected to accommodate specific channel conditions and …

We analyze the information efficiency of a deep-space optical communication link with
background noise, employing the pulse position modulation (PPM) format and a direct …

We analyze the effect of phase fluctuations in an optical communication scheme based on
collective detection of sequences of binary coherent state symbols using linear optics and …

In most communication scenarios, sending a symbol encoded in a quantum state requires
spending resources such as energy, which can be quantified by a cost of communication. A …