Resolution limits of spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detection

DOI10.1142/S0219749919410156MaRDI QIDQ5114358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yink~Loong Len, Michał Parniak, Konrad Banaszek, Chandan Datta

Publication date 22 June 2020

Published in International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04744

zbMATH Keywords

optical imagingquantum estimationsuper-resolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum computation (81P68) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We consider the problem of estimating the spatial separation between two mutually incoherent point light sources using the super-resolution imaging technique based on spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detectors. We show that in the presence of noise the resolution of the measurement is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the minimum resolvable spatial separation has a characteristic dependence of $sim$SNR${}^{-1/2}$. Several detection techniques, including direct photon counting, as well as homodyne and heterodyne detection are considered.

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