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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum-Enhanced Fourier-Basis Multibeam Photon-Counting Lidar

Kai-Ting Ting, Benjamin T. Scheck, Daniel Feldkhun, Josh Combes, Kelvin H. Wagner

Published Jan 1, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

Photon streams backscattered by a target illuminated by a non-redundant Doppler-shifted beam array are detected and Fourier analyzed and display a quantum advantage of frequency-multiplexed multi-beam interferometry for Fourier telescopy.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.jtu4a.58

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