Quantum Imaging

This book gives an overview of the latest progress in the domain of quantum imaging. It reflects three and a half years of research carried out by leading specialists in the area within the Quantum Imaging network, a research programme of the European Community. 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. Quantum Imaging with Continuous Variables.- Spatial Entanglement in Optical Parametric Down-Conversion.- Quantum Imaging in the Continuous-Wave Regime Using Degenerate Optical Cavities.- Quantum Imaging by Synthesis of Multimode Quantum Light.- Ghost Imaging.- Quantum Limits of Optical Super-Resolution.- Noiseless Amplification of Optical Images.- Optical Image Processing in Second-Harmonic Generation.- Transverse Distribution of Quantum Fluctuations in Free-Space Spatial Solitons.- Quantum Fluctuations in Cavity Solitons.- Quantum Holographic Teleportation and Dense Coding of Optical Images.- Orbital Angular Momentum of Light.