Spatially noiseless optical amplification of images.
We present the first experimental demonstration of noiseless amplification of images, where noise refers to spatial quantum fluctuations on the pixels of single shot images. Phase-sensitive and phase-insensitive schemes are compared and the noise figures are in good agreement with theory, inasmuch this theory includes the quantum efficiency of the whole system and the pixel size.
Mosset
Alexis
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Institut FEMTO-ST, Laboratoire d'Optique PM Duffieux, UMR CNRS/Université de Franche-Comté 6174, 25030 Besançon CEDEX, France.
Devaux
Fabrice
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Lantz
Eric
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