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
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;
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
