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Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Photons

C. Thiel, T. Bastin, J. Martin, E. Solano, J. von Zanthier, G. S. Agarwal

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0701024

Abstract

We propose a technique to obtain sub-wavelength resolution in quantum imaging with potentially 100% contrast using incoherent light. Our method requires neither path-entangled number states nor multi-photon absorption. The scheme makes use of N photons spontaneously emitted by N atoms and registered by N detectors. It is shown that for coincident detection at particular detector positions a resolution of λ/ N can be achieved.

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