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

Noise Resistant Phase Imaging with Intensity Correlation

Jerzy Szuniewicz, Stanisław Kurdziałek, Wojciech Zwoliński, Radosław Chrapkiewicz, Mayukh Lahiri, Radek Łapkiewicz

Published Jan 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a phase imaging technique which is resistant to time dependent phase fluctuations based on measuring intensity correlations instead of intensities. The method allows for long measurements, advantageous under low photon fluxes.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2019.tu5a.4

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