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IEEE Photonics Conference

Towards Single-Pixel Quantum Thermal Imaging

Haechan An, Hamza Ather, Ali Shakouri, Mahdi Hosseini

Published Nov 12, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We apply multimode quantum correlated light to thermoreflectivity sensing in electronic devices. We rely on multimode properties of intensity squeezed light to develop scanning-based quantum imaging of electronic hot spots with sub-shot-noise sensitivity.
DOI
10.1109/ipc57732.2023.10360684

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