Correlation Plenoptic Imaging with Entangled Photons
Year: 2018
Authors: Di Lena F., Pepe FV., Avella A., Ruo-Berchera I., Scarcelli G., Garuccio A., D’Angelo M.
Autors Affiliation: [Di Lena, Francesco; Garuccio, Augusto; D’Angelo, Milena] Univ Bari, Dipartimento Interateneo Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy.
[Di Lena, Francesco; Pepe, Francesco, V; Garuccio, Augusto; D’Angelo, Milena] INFN, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy.
[Avella, Alessio; Ruo-Berchera, Ivano] INRIM, Str Cacce 91, I-10135 Turin, Italy.
[Scarcelli, Giuliano] Univ Maryland, Fischell Dept Bioengn, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.
[Garuccio, Augusto; D’Angelo, Milena] INO, CNR, I-50125 Florence, Italy.
Abstract: Plenoptic imaging (PI) is an optical technique to perform three-dimensional imaging in a single shot. It is enabled by the simultaneous measurement of both the location and the propagation direction of light in a given scene. Despite being very useful for extending the depth of field, such technique entails a strong trade-off between spatial and angular resolution. This makes the resolution and the maximum achievable depth of focus inversely proportional; hence, resolution cannot be diffraction-limited. We have recently proposed a new procedure, called Correlation Plenoptic Imaging (CPI), to overcome such fundamental limits by collecting plenoptic information through intensity correlation measurement. Using two correlated beams, from either a chaotic or an entangled photon source, we perform imaging in one arm and simultaneously obtain the angular information in the other arm. In this paper, we discuss the case in which the two correlated beams of light are generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We review the principles of CPI with entangled photons and discuss its resolution and depth-of-field limits.
Accession Number: WOS:000454217900007
Conference title: Conference on Quantum Technologies
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KeyWords: Quantum optics; Quantum imaging; Plenoptic imaging