Progress in quantum telescopes

arXiv:2609.18079 · astro-ph.IM, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Terminology

• Aperture — 32× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• alpha — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fisher Information — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Event Horizon Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Hanbury Brown-Twiss — 3× in this paper
• Adaptive Optics (AO) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gran Telescopio Canarias — 2× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Post-Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Square Kilometre Array — 1× in this paper
• Very Large Telescope Interferometer — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Hanburry Brown and Twiss, Hong Ou and Mandel effects and other landmarks in Quantum Optics: from photons to atoms
• Optical Multi-Channel Intensity Interferometry - or: How To Resolve O-Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
• Single-photon super-resolved spectroscopy from spatial-mode demultiplexing
• Breaking the Diffraction Barrier for Passive Sources: Parameter-Decoupled Superresolution Assisted by Physics-Informed Machine Learning
• Enhancing Optical Imaging via Quantum Computation
• Multi-Plane Light Conversion: A Practical Tutorial
• Quantum telescopes
• Nondeterministic Noiseless Linear Amplification of Quantum Systems
• Criteria for optimal entanglement-assisted long baseline telescopy
• Long baseline optical interferometric imaging with active phase stabilization
• Quantum teleportation coexisting with classical communications in optical fiber
• Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference with a Coexisting Clock using Transceivers for Synchronization over Deployed Fiber
• Phase-Stable Optical Fiber Links for Quantum Network Protocols
• Sub-femtosecond stabilization of multicore fiber for high-fidelity quantum networking at 100% duty cycle
• Quantum-Limited Subdiffraction Telescopy Requires Genuine Multi-Telescope Interference
• Entanglement Assisted Non-local Optical Interferometry in a Quantum Network
• Memory-Assisted Nonlocal Interferometer Towards Long-Baseline Telescopes
• Piecemeal Telescope Array: Exponential Precision with Strong Robustness and High Efficiency
• An ab-initio derivation to discuss the heterodyne versus direct detection decision problem for astronomical infrared interferometry
• High-Contrast Imaging: Hide and Seek with Exoplanets

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