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Frontiers in Optics

Entanglement enabled synthetic aperture in decohering environments

Siddhartha Santra, Brian T. Kirby, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Michael Brodsky

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

We propose a protocol for synthesizing large apertures in interferometry using imperfectly entangled quantum states shared between remote telescopes. The protocol implementation is feasible in practical environments and can provide high-resolution images of distant sources.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2017.jw4a.39

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