Subwavelength quantum imaging with noisy detectors
Quantum Physics
2020-02-24 v2
Abstract
It has been recently shown that an interferometric measurement may allow for sub-wavelength resolution of incoherent light. Whereas this holds for noiseless detectors, one could expect that the resolution is in practice limited by signal-to-noise ratio. Here I present an assessment of the ultimate resolution limits that can be achieved using noisy detectors. My analysis indeed indicates that the signal-to-noise ratio represents a fundamental limit to quantum imaging, and the reduced resolution scales with the square root of the signal-to-noise ratio. For example, a signal-to-ratio of is needed to resolve one order of magnitude below the Rayleigh limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1911.10012,
title = {Subwavelength quantum imaging with noisy detectors},
author = {Cosmo Lupo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10012},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Comments welcome. v2: close to the published version