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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 20dB20 dB is needed to resolve one order of magnitude below the Rayleigh limit.

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@article{arxiv.1911.10012,
  title  = {Subwavelength quantum imaging with noisy detectors},
  author = {Cosmo Lupo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10012},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Comments welcome. v2: close to the published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:24:28.430Z