• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 45, Issue 6, 627001 (2016)
XU Shi-long1、2、*, HU Yi-hua1、2, ZHAO Nan-xiang1、2, LI Le1、2, and GUO Li-ren1、2
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20164506.0627001 Cite this Article
    XU Shi-long, HU Yi-hua, ZHAO Nan-xiang, LI Le, GUO Li-ren. Target Detection of Quantum Illumination Based on M&M′ State[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2016, 45(6): 627001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    NOON states and M&M′ states are both typical path-entangled Fock state. M&M′ state is a new class of path-entangled photon Fock states which possesses photons in both path, and has been confirmed with a good performance in loss environment. In this paper, the detecting error-probability bound of quantum illumination based on M&M′ state was derived under the assumption that the target echo photons are pure states, which was also compared with the error-bounds of Fock state and NOON state. The simulation results show that the error bounds of M&M′ states are no longer limited by the total photon number, but influenced by the proportion of photon number between the signal path and the unused path. Therefore, the quantum illumination system with M&M′ states can offer an enhanced performance over Fock state in a larger dynamic range of signal to noise ratio(at least double time of NOON states).
    XU Shi-long, HU Yi-hua, ZHAO Nan-xiang, LI Le, GUO Li-ren. Target Detection of Quantum Illumination Based on M&M′ State[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2016, 45(6): 627001
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