Time-Switching Energy-Harvesting Quantum Relay-Assisted FSO Communication with Displaced Squeezed Signaling
Abstract
This paper investigates a quantum relay-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication system in which a decode-and-forward relay is powered by time-switching optical energy harvesting and forwards the decoded information using displaced squeezed signaling (DSS). To obtain a physically con sistent description of turbulence-induced loss for non-classical signaling, each hop is modeled as a pure-loss bosonic chan nel whose random transmissivity follows a truncated Gamma Gamma law, i.e., the Gamma-Gamma irradiance conditioned on the physically admissible range of a transmittance. Under this channel, coherent states remain pure, whereas squeezed states are mapped to mixed Gaussian states. Under Helstrom-optimal detection, the average error of the coherent hop is derived in exact Laplace-series form. For the DSS hop, we derive the output states, a closed-form Gaussian fidelity with rigorous two sided bounds on the Helstrom error, and prove the existence of a loss-aware optimal photon partition. Furthermore, we prove that optimized squeezing preserves both the turbulence-induced diversity order and the leading asymptotic constant of coherent relaying, so that its benefit is a finite-photon-budget effect, and that an interior throughput-optimal harvesting fraction exists. A covariance-preserving benchmark with an exact series representation yields an analytical upper bound on the achievable throughput whose absolute gap vanishes as the relay photon budget grows. Numerical results based on the exact mixed-state Helstrom error quantify the benefit of squeezing and the regime in which it is useful.
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BibTeX
@misc{khalfet2026timeswitching,
title = {{Time-Switching Energy-Harvesting Quantum Relay-Assisted FSO Communication with Displaced Squeezed Signaling}},
author = {Nizar Khalfet and Francisco A. Monteiro and Ioannis Krikidis},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.39091},
eprint = {2610.39091},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39091},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Time-Switching Energy-Harvesting Quantum Relay-Assisted FSO Communication with Displaced Squeezed Signaling
AU - Nizar Khalfet
AU - Francisco A. Monteiro
AU - Ioannis Krikidis
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.39091
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39091
AB - This paper investigates a quantum relay-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication system in which a decode-and-forward relay is powered by time-switching optical energy harvesting and forwards the decoded information using displaced squeezed signaling (DSS). To obtain a physically con sistent description of turbulence-induced loss for non-classical signaling, each hop is modeled as a pure-loss bosonic chan nel whose random transmissivity follows a truncated Gamma Gamma law, i.e., the Gamma-Gamma irradiance conditioned on the physically admissible range of a transmittance. Under this channel, coherent states remain pure, whereas squeezed states are mapped to mixed Gaussian states. Under Helstrom-optimal detection, the average error of the coherent hop is derived in exact Laplace-series form. For the DSS hop, we derive the output states, a closed-form Gaussian fidelity with rigorous two sided bounds on the Helstrom error, and prove the existence of a loss-aware optimal photon partition. Furthermore, we prove that optimized squeezing preserves both the turbulence-induced diversity order and the leading asymptotic constant of coherent relaying, so that its benefit is a finite-photon-budget effect, and that an interior throughput-optimal harvesting fraction exists. A covariance-preserving benchmark with an exact series representation yields an analytical upper bound on the achievable throughput whose absolute gap vanishes as the relay photon budget grows. Numerical results based on the exact mixed-state Helstrom error quantify the benefit of squeezing and the regime in which it is useful.
ER -