Super-resolution at the shot-noise limit with coherent states and photon-number-resolving detectors

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Gao, Yang ^a   Anisimov, Petr M ^a   Wildfeuer, Christoph F ^a   Luine, Jerome ^b   Lee, Hwang ^a   Dowling, Jonathan P ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; BEER LAW; COHERENT STATE; DETECTED PHOTONS; OPTICAL ATTENUATION; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PHOTON LOSS; PHOTON-NUMBER-RESOLVING DETECTORS; QUANTUM LASERS; QUANTUM STATE; RAYLEIGH DIFFRACTION LIMIT; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUPER RESOLUTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77955697349     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.00A170     Document Type: Article

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