Sub-shot-noise microscopy: imaging of faint phase objects with squeezed light
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 18 (11) , 849-851
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.18.000849
Abstract
We propose a scheme that uses spatially multimode squeezed light, generated by means of a traveling-wave optical parametric amplifier, with which a faint phase object can be imaged with sensitivity better than the shot-noise limit.Keywords
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