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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum Phase Imaging with Undetected Photons Immune to Phase Noise

Chandler Tarrant, Mayukh Lahiri

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present an interferometric quantum phase imaging technique that (1) does not detect the photons interacting with the object and (2) applies when standard interferometry-based phase imaging schemes fail due to uncontrollable, random phase fluctuations.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.jw4a.20

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