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Quantum Enhanced Non-Interferometric Quantitative Phase Imaging

Alberto Paniate, Giuseppe Ortolano, Pauline Boucher, Carmine Napoli, Sarika Soman, Silvania F. Pereira, Ivano Ruo Berchera, Marco Genovese

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a technique which exploits entanglement to enhance quantitative phase retrieval of an object in a non-interferometric setting only measuring the propagated intensity pattern after interaction with the object
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.fm2r.2

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