Quantum lithography with classical light

We show how to achieve subwavelength diffraction and imaging with classical light, previously thought to require quantum fields. By correlating wave vector and frequency in a narrow band, multiphoton detection process that uses Doppleron-type resonances, we show how to achieve arbitrary focal and im...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2006-04, Vol.96 (16), p.163603-163603, Article 163603
Hauptverfasser: Hemmer, P R, Muthukrishnan, A, Scully, M O, Zubairy, M S
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We show how to achieve subwavelength diffraction and imaging with classical light, previously thought to require quantum fields. By correlating wave vector and frequency in a narrow band, multiphoton detection process that uses Doppleron-type resonances, we show how to achieve arbitrary focal and image plane patterning with classical laser light at submultiples of the Rayleigh limit, with high efficiency, visibility, and spatial coherence. A frequency-selective measurement process thus allows one to simulate, semiclassically, the path-number correlations that distinguish a quantum entangled field.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.163603