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Subwavelength quantum imaging with noisy detectors

Authors :
Cosmo Lupo
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
arXiv, 2019.

Abstract

It has been recently shown that an interferometric measurement may allow for sub-wavelength resolution of incoherent light. Whereas this holds for noiseless detectors, one could expect that the resolution is in practice limited by signal-to-noise ratio. Here I present an assessment of the ultimate resolution limits that can be achieved using noisy detectors. My analysis indeed indicates that the signal-to-noise ratio represents a fundamental limit to quantum imaging, and the reduced resolution scales with the square root of the signal-to-noise ratio. For example, a signal-to-ratio of $20 dB$ is needed to resolve one order of magnitude below the Rayleigh limit.<br />Comment: Comments welcome. v2: close to the published version

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9f75ec81986df02b42c869c88408c1c0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1911.10012