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Optimal imaging of remote bodies using quantum detectors

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 نشر من قبل Lewis Howard
 تاريخ النشر 2018
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We implement a general imaging method by measuring the complex degree of coherence using linear optics and photon number resolving detectors. In the absence of collective or entanglement assisted measurements, our method is optimal over a large range of practically relevant values of the complex degree of coherence. We measure the size and position of a small distant source of pseudo-thermal light, and show that our method outperforms the traditional imaging method by an order of magnitude in precision. Finally, we show that a lack of photon number resolution in the detectors has only a modest detrimental effect on measurement precision and simulate imaging using the new and traditional methods with an array of detectors; showing that the new method improves both image clarity and contrast.



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