Enhanced standoff sensing resolution using quantum illumination

DOI10.1063/1.3630159MaRDI QIDQ5418327zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saikat Guha, Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Publication date 3 June 2014

Published in AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2548

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementquantum immagingspontaneous parametric downconversion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum optics (81V80) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Abstract: Loss and noise quickly destroy quantum entanglement. Nevertheless, recent work has shown that a quadrature-entangled light source can reap a substantial performance advantage over all classical-state sources of the same average transmitter power in scenarios whose loss and noise makes them entanglement breaking, standoff target-detection being an example. In this paper, we make a first step in extending this quantum illumination paradigm to the optical imaging domain, viz., to obtain better spatial resolution for standoff optical sensing. Our canonical imaging scenario---restricted, for simplicity, to one transverse dimension---is taken to be that of resolving one versus two closely-spaced in-phase specular point targets. We show that an entangled-state transmitter, which uses continuous-wave-pumped spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC), achieves an error-probability exponent that exceeds that of all classical-state transmitters of the same average power. Using these error-exponent results, we find the ultimate spatial-resolution limits for coherent-state and SPDC imaging systems that use their respective quantum-optimal receivers, thus quantifying the latter's spatial-resolution advantage over the former. We also propose a structured optical receiver that is ideally capable of harnessing 3 dB (of the full 6 dB) gain in the error-probability exponent achievable by the SPDC transmitter and its quantum-optimal receiver.

Recommendations

• Improve microwave quantum illumination via optical parametric amplifier
• Improving spatial resolution in quantum imaging beyond the Rayleigh diffraction limit using multiphoton W entangled states
• Is entanglement a unique resource in quantum illumination?
• Improved resolution in imaging through quantum post-selection
• How discord underlies the noise resilience of quantum illumination

Cited in

(6)

• Improve microwave quantum illumination via optical parametric amplifier
• Is entanglement a unique resource in quantum illumination?
• Improved resolution in imaging through quantum post-selection
• LADAR resolution improvement using squeezed-vacuum injection
• Improving spatial resolution in quantum imaging beyond the Rayleigh diffraction limit using multiphoton W entangled states
• Resolution limits of spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detection

This page was built for publication: Enhanced standoff sensing resolution using quantum illumination

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5418327)