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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Spatial Super-Resolution with Triphoton N00N States

Lee A. Rozema, Lynden K. Shalm, Aephraim M. Steinberg, Malcolm N. O’Sullivan, Robert W. Boyd

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The proposal that quantum entanglement can lead to sub-Rayleigh resolution in optics has received much attention lately. Here we present an experiment in which three entangled photons are used to demonstrate spatial super-resolution.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2009.iwf5

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