“…Hybrid PIC detectors have also been proposed that use a linear combination of both the hard and soft decision statistics [4]. Since the pioneering work of Varanasi, Aazhang, Kaul, and Woerner, there has been an increased interest in understanding the performance of the PIC detector (see, for instance, [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]). …”