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Devaux F, Blanchet JL, Lantz E. Effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement by parametric image amplification. Opt Lett. 2007;32(2):175-7doi: 10.1364/ol.32.000175.
Devaux, F., Blanchet, J. L., & Lantz, E. (2007). Effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement by parametric image amplification. Optics letters, 32(2), 175-7. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.32.000175
Devaux, Fabrice, et al. "Effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement by parametric image amplification." Optics letters vol. 32,2 (2007): 175-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.32.000175
Devaux F, Blanchet JL, Lantz E. Effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement by parametric image amplification. Opt Lett. 2007 Jan 15;32(2):175-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.32.000175. PMID: 17186055.
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Opt Lett. 2007 Jan 15;32(2):175-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.32.000175.

Effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement by parametric image amplification.

Optics letters

Fabrice Devaux, Jean Luc Blanchet, Eric Lantz

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  1. Institut Femto-ST, Laboratoire d'Optique P. M. Duffieux, UMR 6174 CNRS/Université de Franche Comté, Besançon, France.

PMID: 17186055 DOI: 10.1364/ol.32.000175

Abstract

We show experimentally that parametric optical preamplification greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio of an image if the detector has a poor quantum efficiency and/or a great level of readout noise. Results are fully consistent with the theory of quantum-noise-limited amplification.

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