Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters

Daniel Gottesman; Thomas Jennewein; Sarah Croke

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.070503

Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters

Quantum Physics 2012-09-03 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors: Daniel Gottesman , Thomas Jennewein , Sarah Croke

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Abstract

We present an approach to building interferometric telescopes using ideas of quantum information. Current optical interferometers have limited baseline lengths, and thus limited resolution, because of noise and loss of signal due to the transmission of photons between the telescopes. The technology of quantum repeaters has the potential to eliminate this limit, allowing in principle interferometers with arbitrarily long baselines.

Keywords

interferometry astronomical instrumentation quantum optics

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@article{arxiv.1107.2939,
  title  = {Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters},
  author = {Daniel Gottesman and Thomas Jennewein and Sarah Croke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2939},
  year   = {2012}
}

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