• DocumentCode
    521059
  • Title

    Enhancing contrast of point images using coherent states and photon-number-resolving detectors

  • Author

    Ling, Alexander ; Pearlman, Aaron ; Goldschmidt, Elizabeth ; Fan, Jingyun ; Migdall, Alan

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Technol. Div., Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We map the transverse profile of light beams using photon-number-resolving detectors, and observe compression of beam profiles for higher detected photon-number, enabling contrast enhancement between two Airy disk beams at the Rayleigh limit.
  • Keywords
    Diffraction; Drives; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Image resolution; NIST; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics; Radiation detectors; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500666
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=521059