Photon number resolution enables quantum receiver for realistic coherent optical communications

A quantum receiver based on photon-number-resolving detection and adaptive feedback is demonstrated. It can discriminate quadrature-phase-shift-keying coherent signals with error below the standard quantum limit.

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