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Beating the classical camera

Nature Photonics volume 4, pages 199–200 (2010)Cite this article

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By utilizing the spatial quantum correlations of light, Italian researchers have now performed imaging at significantly higher signal-to-noise ratios than those possible through classical techniques.

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Figure 1: The differential quantum imaging experiment of Brida and colleagues.

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  1. Stefanie Barz and Philip Walther are at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. philip.walther@univie.ac.at,

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Barz, S., Walther, P. Beating the classical camera. Nature Photon 4, 199–200 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.71

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