Quantum imaging with incoherent photons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Thiel, C ^a   Bastin, T ^b   Martin, J ^b   Solano, E ^c,d   Von Zanthier, J ^a   Agarwal, G S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS;

DETECTOR POSITIONS; INCOHERENT LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION; QUANTUM IMAGING;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 34848921788     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.133603     Document Type: Article

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