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Optics and Spectroscopy

Quantum imaging and spatio-temporal correlations

A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, Lucia Caspani, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Luigi A. Lugiato

Published Oct 1, 2011• 1 citation
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We report on recent progress for two topics in the field of Quantum Imaging. The first is the detection of faint amplitude objects with a sensitivity which surpasses the standard quantum limit. The second is the theoretical/numerical analysis of spatio-temporal entanglement in optical parametric down-conversion.
DOI
10.1134/s0030400x11110087

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