Quantum Limits of Optical Communication
24-26 February 2016, Warsaw, Poland

Scope

Standard optical communication systems operate with efficiencies lower that limits defined by quantum physics. In recent years, significant progress has been made in identifying ultimate capacities of optical channels, developing and implementing sub-shot noise receivers, and understanding non-classical effects such as superadditivity of accessible information through collective readout. The purpose of this workshop is to review these advances and to identify further steps towards practical exploitation of quantum enhancement in optical communication.

Main topics include:

  • Sub-shot noise receivers
  • Collective detection
  • Ultimate capacity of optical channels
  • Quantum-limited optical signal discrimination
  • Mode multiplexing and demultiplexing
  • Noise in optical communication links


If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Konrad-dot-Banaszek-at-fuw-dot-edu-dot-pl

Invited speakers

  • Alessia Allevi (Como): Photon-number resolving detectors for phase monitoring in a coherent-state discrimination setup
  • Ulrik Andersen (Copenhagen): Collective detection of correlated states
  • Francisco Becerra Chavez (Albuquerque): Optimized discrimination strategies for coherent state receivers
  • Dagmar Bruss (Duesseldorf): Quantum limits for unambiguous discrimination of noisy states
  • Nicolas Cerf (Brussels): Application of majorization theory to quantum communication
  • Nilanjana Datta (Cambridge): Entropy power inequalities for qudits
  • Radim Filip (Olomouc): Deterministic noise reduction in classical communication with quantum states
  • Raúl García-Patrón Sánchez (Brussels): What quantum information tell us about optical communication?
  • Frédéric Grosshans (Paris-Saclay): Ambiguity-losses trade-off for quantum state discrimination
  • Saikat Guha (Boston): On structured designs of codes and non-standard optical receivers to attain the quantum limit of reliable optical communications
  • Chiara Macchiavello (Pavia): Efficient detection of quantum channel capacities
  • Christoph Marquardt (Erlangen): Improving classical communication with quantum receivers: Practical limits
  • Alfonso Martinez (Barcelona): Additive-energy channels
  • Colin McKinstrie (Red Bank, NJ): Noise in conventional communication systems and quantum information experiments
  • Matteo Paris (Milan): Quantum phase communication channels in the presence of static and dynamical phase diffusion
  • Fabio Sciarrino (Rome): Innovative integrated photonics devices
  • Christine Silberhorn (Paderborn): Quantum information processing with ultrafast pulsed light
  • Brian J. Smith (Oxford): Unitary spectral-temporal pulsed mode manipulation and applications

Programme

The workshop will start on Wednesday 24th February at 09:00 and finish on Friday 26th February around 15:00.

Download draft programme as PDF file

Travel

The Workshop will take place on the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw, where the new building of the Faculty of Physics is located.


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Railway stations closest to the conference venue are Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Zachodnia. Current timetables can be found here.



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