Quantum lithography with classical light. Academic Article

abstract

• 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.

authors

• Hemmer, Philip
• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Hemmer, P. R., Muthukrishnan, A., Scully, M. O., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 74

complete list of authors

• Hemmer, PR||Muthukrishnan, A||Scully, MO||Zubairy, MS

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics
• 0299 Other Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 16712229

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.163603

start page

• 163603

volume

• 96

issue

• 16