Optical ranging with quantum advantage

Abstract

The quantum illumination technique requires joint measurement between the idler and the probe reflected from the low-reflective target present in a noisy environment. The joint measurement is only possible with prior knowledge about the target's location. The technique in this article overcomes this limitation by using entanglement and a cross-correlated homodyne measurement. This technique does not require quantum storage of the idler and prior knowledge about the target's distance. The cross-correlation measurement makes this technique completely immune to environmental noise, as the correlation between the idler and the environment is zero. The low reflectivity of the target is negated by increasing the intensity of the reference fields (non-entangled) in the homodyne. Based on heuristic arguments, a lower bound of the target's reflectivity for optimum application of this technique is described.

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