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Advances in Optical Sciences Congress

Imaging Resolution Improvement Using Transverse Phase Amplification

D. French, Zhifeng Huang, Hsien‐Ping Pao, Igor Jovanovic

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

Transverse phase amplification of spatially multimode beams can be achieved via phase-sensitive optical parametric amplification. Transverse phase amplification of the signal in the canonical imaging problem can improve imaging resolution beyond the Rayleigh limit.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2009.nfb4

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