Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Spectroscopy and imaging in the mid-infrared ($2.5\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\textmu{}\mathrm{m}\ensuremath{\sim}\ensuremath{\lambda}\ensuremath{\sim}25\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\textmu{}\mathrm{m}$) is bedeviled by the presence of a strong 300-K thermal background at room temperature that makes infrared (IR) detectors decades noisier than can be readily achieved in the visible. The technique of imaging with undetected photons (IUP) exploits the quantum correlations between entangled photon pairs to transfer image information from one spectral region to another, and here we show that it does so in a way that is immune to the thermal background. This means that IUP can be used to perform high-speed photon-counting measurements across the mid-IR spectrum, using uncooled visible detectors that are many times cheaper, faster, and more sensitive than their IR counterparts.
Source: Physical Review A
Institution: Imperial College London
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,675
OpenAlex ID: W4386926950