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Enhancing Image Contrast Using Coherent States and Photon Number Resolving Detectors

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Aaron Pearlman, Alexander E. Ling, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Jingyun Fan, Christoph Wildfeuer, Alan L. Migdall

Abstract

We experimentally map the transverse profile of diffraction-limited 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 intensity profile between two Airy disk-beams separated by the Rayleigh criterion.
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
18
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

Quantum Metrology, Sub-Rayleigh Imaging, Photon Number Resolving Detector quantum metrology, sub-Rayleigh imaging, photon number resolving detector quantum metrology, sub-Rayleigh imaging, photon number resolving detector Quantum Metrology, Sub-Rayleigh Imaging: Photon Number Resolving Detector
Physics and Quantum information science

Citation

Pearlman, A. , Ling, A. , Goldschmidt, E. , Fan, J. , Wildfeuer, C. and Migdall, A. (2010), Enhancing Image Contrast Using Coherent States and Photon Number Resolving Detectors, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904224 (Accessed October 27, 2025)

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Created March 15, 2010, Updated February 19, 2017
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