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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

What is the optimum way to extract information from optical images at the standard quantum limit and beyond ?

Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps, V. Delaubert, Hans‐A. Bachor, Philippe Réfrégier

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

The problem of extracting a given piece of information from an image with the maximum sensitivity is solved in the general case. Implementations using image intensity processing techniques and homodyne measurements are given.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2006.4629003

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