Quantum Imaging is a newly born branch of quantum optics that investigates the ultimate performance limits of optical imaging allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. Using the methods and techniques from quantum optics, quantum imaging addresses the questions of image formation, processing and detection with sensitivity and resolution exceeding the limits of classical imaging. This book contains the most important theoretical and experimental results achieved by the researchers of the Quantum Imaging network, a research programme of the European Community.

Table of Contents

1. Quantum Imaging with Continuous Variables

2. Spatial Entanglement in Optical Parametric Down-Conversion

3. Quantum Imaging in the Continuous-Wave Regime Using Degenerate Optical Cavities

4. Quantum Imaging by Synthesis of Multimode Quantum Light

5. Ghost Imaging

6. Quantum Limits of Optical Super-Resolution

7. Noiseless Amplification of Optical Images

8. Optical Image Processing in Second-Harmonic Generation

9. Transverse Distribution of Quantum Fluctuations in Free-Space Spatial Solitons

10. Quantum Fluctuations in Cavity Solitons

11. Quantum Holographic Teleportation and Dense Coding of Optical Images

12. Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

About the Author

Mikhail Kolobov is the head of the “Quantum Optics and Quantum Information” group in the “laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molecules” (PhLAM). He received his PhD at the University of Leningrad in 1989 and obtained his Habilitation in 1998 at the University of Essen, Germany. From 2001 he is full professor at the “Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille” (USTL). Together with Ivan Sokolov from St. Petersburg University he is one of the pioneers of the theory of quantum imaging. His current research interests include quantum limits of optical resolution, quantum limits in Compressed Sensing, and multipartite quantum entanglement.