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Role of entanglement in two-photon imaging

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

The use of entangled photons in an imaging system can exhibit effects that cannot be mimicked by any other two-photon source, whatever the strength of the correlations between the two photons. We consider a two-photon imaging system in which one photon is used to probe a remote (transmissive or scattering) object, while the other serves as a reference. We discuss the role of entanglement versus correlation in such a setting, and demonstrate that entanglement is a prerequisite for achieving distributed quantum imaging.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0108124,
  title  = {Role of entanglement in two-photon imaging},
  author = {Ayman F. Abouraddy and Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Alexander V. Sergienko and Malvin C. Teich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0108124},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures