Quantum Enhanced Imaging of Non-Uniform Refractive Profiles

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates quantum metrology techniques, specifically using Twin Beam States, to improve the accuracy of imaging non-uniform refractive profiles, enabling better 2D reconstruction of complex spatial structures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum imaging method utilizing multimode spatial correlations from PDC to enhance accuracy over classical approaches.

Findings

Quantum approach improves imaging accuracy.

Multimode spatial correlation enables 2D profile reconstruction.

Experimental demonstration confirms theoretical predictions.

Abstract

In this work quantum metrology techniques are applied to the imaging of objects with a non-uniform refractive spatial profile. A sensible improvement on the classical accuracy is shown to be found when the "Twin Beam State" (TWB) is used. In particular exploiting the multimode spatial correlation, naturally produced in the Parametric Down Conversion (PDC) process, allows a 2D reconstruction of complex spatial profiles, thus enabling an enhanced imaging. The idea is to use one of the spatially multimode beam to probe the sample and the other as a reference to reduce the noise. A similar model can be also used to describe wave front distortion measurements. The model is meant to be followed by a first experimental demonstration of such enhanced measurement scheme.