Enhancing image contrast using coherent states and photon number resolving detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6033-6039

  Pearlman, A J ^a,b   Ling, A ^a,b   Goldschmidt, E A ^a,b   Wildfeuer, C F ^c   Fan, J ^a,b   Migdall, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; DETECTED PHOTONS; DIFFRACTED BEAMS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IRRADIANCE PROFILES; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING DETECTOR; PHOTON-NUMBER-RESOLVING DETECTORS; RAYLEIGH CRITERION; TRANSVERSE PROFILE;

PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS;

EID: 77949628890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006033     Document Type: Article

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