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Imaging and Applied Optics

Interferometric Multi-beam Photon-counting Fourier-BASIS Computational Imaging Lidar

Kelvin H. Wagner, Kai-Ting Ting, Channing P. Philbrick, Dan Feldkhun

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

Multi-beam interferometric Fourier-BASIS computational imaging in the single-photon regime provides a new type of quantum enhancement of the sensitivity of a LIDAR without entanglement since each received photon click encodes multiple simultaneous complex measurements.
DOI
10.1364/cosi.2025.cw3b.1

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