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Frontiers in Optics

Image Quality of Compressive Imaging with Quantum Light

Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Vamsi krishna Manthapuram, Lu Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

Several common reconstruction algorithms were used to perform compressive quantum imaging with Fock states, coherent states, and squeezed light. It was found that the different light sources gave the same scaling law for the root-mean-squared error.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2016.fth5c.7

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