Entanglement Assisted Radars With Transmitter Side Optical Phase Conjugation and Classical Coherent Detection

Abstract

Entanglement is a unique quantum information processing feature. With the help of entanglement we can build quantum sensors whose sensitivity is better than that of classical sensors. In this paper we are concerned with the entanglement assisted (EA) bistatic quantum radar applications. By employing the optical phase conjugation (OPC) on transmitter side and classical coherent detection on receiver side we show that the detection probability of the proposed EA target detection scheme is significantly better than that of corresponding classical and coherent states-based quantum detection schemes. The proposed EA target detection scheme is evaluated by modelling the radar return channel as the lossy and noisy Bosonic channel and assuming imperfect distribution of entanglement over the idler channel. © 2013 IEEE.