Bayesian Greedy Receiver for Pulse Position Modulation without an Error Floor under Thermal Noise

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Main Authors: Bia, Leo, Gagatsos, Christos N., Guha, Saikat
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Published: 2025
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author Bia, Leo
Gagatsos, Christos N.
Guha, Saikat
author_facet Bia, Leo
Gagatsos, Christos N.
Guha, Saikat
contents We investigate quantum receiver architectures for demodulation $M$-ary Pulse Position Modulation under thermal noise and photon-starved conditions. Building on the greed receiver framework, we analyze it using jointly optimized displacement-squeezing and the Dolinar receiver. We further introduce a novel slicing Bayesian greedy receiver, which partitions each PPM time slot into multiple optical slices and update the full posterior distribution over codeword hypothesis at each slice using Bayes' rule. Under the presence of noise, our slicing greedy receiver outperforms the standard greedy receiver and appears to avoid a noise floor given sufficient slicing resolution.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Greedy Receiver for Pulse Position Modulation without an Error Floor under Thermal Noise
Bia, Leo
Gagatsos, Christos N.
Guha, Saikat
Quantum Physics
We investigate quantum receiver architectures for demodulation $M$-ary Pulse Position Modulation under thermal noise and photon-starved conditions. Building on the greed receiver framework, we analyze it using jointly optimized displacement-squeezing and the Dolinar receiver. We further introduce a novel slicing Bayesian greedy receiver, which partitions each PPM time slot into multiple optical slices and update the full posterior distribution over codeword hypothesis at each slice using Bayes' rule. Under the presence of noise, our slicing greedy receiver outperforms the standard greedy receiver and appears to avoid a noise floor given sufficient slicing resolution.
title Bayesian Greedy Receiver for Pulse Position Modulation without an Error Floor under Thermal Noise
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05472