Enhancing image contrast using coherent states and photon number resolving detectors

A. J. Pearlman; A. Ling; E. A. Goldschmidt; C. F. Wildfeuer; J. Fan; A. Migdall

doi:10.1364/OE.18.006033

Enhancing image contrast using coherent states and photon number resolving detectors

A. J. Pearlman, A. Ling, E. A. Goldschmidt, C. F. Wildfeuer, J. Fan, A. Migdall

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We experimentally map the transverse profile of diffractionlimited beams using photon-number-resolving detectors. We observe strong compression of diffracted beam profiles for high detected photon number. This effect leads to higher contrast than a conventional irradiance profile between two Airy disk-beams separated by the Rayleigh criterion.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6033-6039
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	18
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.006033
State	Published - Mar 15 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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