The invention discloses a
photon number resolution enhanced
laser communication
system and method. The
system comprises a controller, a waveform generator, a pulse
laser source, an adjustable attenuator, an array superconducting
nanowire single-
photon detector, a power
amplifier, a power synthesizer, an analog-to-
digital converter and an
oscilloscope, wherein the controller carries out code modulation on data needing to be output and inputs the data to a waveform generator, the waveform generator converts the coded information into an electric pulse
signal and outputs the electric pulse signalto the pulse
laser source, the pulse
laser source generates a corresponding optical pulse
signal according to the input electric pulse
signal, then the optical pulse signal is input into the array superconducting
nanowire single-
photon detector through the adjustable attenuator, a signal with photon number resolution is output through the power
amplifier and the power synthesizer, and finally thesignal is received and collected by the
oscilloscope after being shaped by the analog-to-
digital converter. Error code interference caused by external
optical space noise and dark
noise of the superconducting
detector is greatly reduced, so that the error rate is enabled to be close to the self-owned light
quantum error code limit of
optical communication.