Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Phase-Sensitive Three-Wave Mixing for Imaging Resolution Improvement

D. French, Zhifeng Huang, Igor Jovanovic

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

Phase-sensitive three-wave mixing operated in the deamplification mode can produce angular phase amplification for multimode beams. A detailed analysis of this scheme indicates that super-Rayleigh imaging resolution is expected.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2009.ctuz6

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