Quantum imaging with continuous variables

Sylvain Gigan; V. Delaubert; M. Martinelli; Nicolas Treps; Claude Fabre; Agnes Maitre

doi:10.1117/12.507288

3 February 2004 Quantum imaging with continuous variables

Sylvain Gigan, V. Delaubert, M. Martinelli, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre, Agnes Maitre

Proceedings Volume 5161, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507288
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The visibility and quality of optical images is ultimately limited not by diffraction but by the quantum noise affecting each pixel of a detector. Multimode non-classical states of light, characterized by spatial quantum correlation or local reduced quantum noise, permit in principle to go beyond the standard quantum limit and therefore to improve transverse optical resolution. It has been predicted that Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPO) operating simultaneously on many transverse modes are good candidates for generating multimode non-classical states of light. We perform an experiment showing that a c.w. confocal OPO above threshold emits such states. Below threshold, the OPO is turned to a multimode optical parametric amplifier.

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Sylvain Gigan, V. Delaubert, M. Martinelli, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre, and Agnes Maitre "Quantum imaging with continuous variables", Proc. SPIE 5161, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging, (3 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507288

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