Outline:

• Brief overview of quantum-enhanced sensing & imaging
• Quantum limits on precision of phase measurement: combatting decoherence with ancilla
• Quantum limits on precision of phase-gradient measurement: Role of beam size
• Quantum limits on two-point resolution: coherence resurrects Rayleigh’s curse

Bahaa E. A. Saleh has been distinguished professor of optics and photonics at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, since January 2009. He served as dean of CREOL from January 2009 to December 2019. He was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University in 1994-2008, and he served as Chair of that Department in 1994-2007. He also served as Deputy Director of the Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center in 2000-2008.

He received the B.S. degree from Cairo University in 1966 and the Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971, both in electrical engineering. He held faculty and research positions at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Kuwait University, Max Planck Institute in Germany, the University of California-Berkeley, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Columbia University, University of Vienna, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a faculty member from 1977 to 1994 and served as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1990 to 1994.

His research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in optics and photonics including statistical and quantum optics, optical communication and signal processing, nonlinear optics, photodetectors, image processing, and vision.

Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Bahaa E. A. Saleh (2020), "Sensitivity & Resolution of Quantum-Enhanced Imaging: Decoherence, Coherence, and Ancillas," https://nanohub.org/resources/31901.

  BibTex | EndNote

1. Imaging
2. interferometry
3. microscopy
4. optics
5. quantum imaging
6. quantum optics
7. sensors/sensing