Parazzoli, Claudio G. and Koltenbah, Benjamin E. and Gerwe, David R. and Idell, Paul S. and Gard, Bryan T. and Birrittella, Richard and Hashemi Rafsanjani, S. M. and Mirhosseini, Mohammad and Magaña-Loaiza, O. S. and Dowling, Jonathan P. and Gerry, Christofer C. and Boyd, Robert W. and Capron, Barbara A. (2016) Enhanced Thermal Object Imaging by Photon Addition or Subtraction. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190717-082422658
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Long-baseline interferometry (LBI) is used to reconstruct the image of faint thermal objects. The image quality, for a given exposure time, is in general limited by a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We show theoretically that a significant increase of the SNR, in a LBI, is possible by adding or subtracting photons to the thermal beam. At low photon counts, photon addition-subtraction technology strongly enhances the image quality. We have experimentally realized a nondeterministic physical protocol for photon subtraction. Our theoretical predictions are supported by experimental results.
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