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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Mode-Selective Image Upconversion Through Turbulence

Santosh Kumar, He Zhang, Yu‐Ping Huang

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a frequency upconversion approach to selective detection of structured images passing through turbulent media, where the turbulence is indirectly compensated by modulating the upconversion pump.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2019.w6a.20

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