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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum Shadow Imaging with Thermal Light

Ziqi Niu, Savannah L. Cuozzo, Pratik J. Barge, Hwang Lee, Lior Cohen, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Irina V. Novikova

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that the shapes of opaque objects can be recovered with a few-photon thermal light using spatial quantum noise analysis. Our method is immune to the camera dark noise thanks to camera-based homodyne detection.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2021.jth5a.113

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