Entanglement-enhanced imaging through scattering media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14616v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:04:25 GMT
• Title: Entanglement-enhanced imaging through scattering media
• Authors: Chloé Vernière, Raphaël Guitter, Baptiste Courme, Hugo Defienne,
• Abstract summary: We present a quantum entanglement-based approach that transmits images through complex media without inverting the scattering process.<n>This method exploits a fundamental property of quantum entanglement: the preservation of photon correlations across multiple measurement bases.<n>Our work introduces a fundamentally new approach to imaging through complex media by leveraging the unique properties of quantum entanglement beyond simple optical correlations.
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• Abstract: Scattering in complex media scrambles light, obscuring images and hindering applications ranging from astronomy to microscopy. While computational algorithms and wavefront shaping can, in principle, reverse this mixing by exploiting the near-linear nature of light propagation, in practice the inversion process is highly susceptible to limitations such as the finite number of controllable modes, noise, losses, and inaccuracies in the forward model. Consequently, these approaches are only effective under tightly controlled conditions, limiting their impact on real-world imaging. Here, we present a quantum entanglement-based approach that transmits images through complex media without inverting the scattering process. This method exploits a fundamental property of quantum entanglement: the preservation of photon correlations across multiple measurement bases. By tailoring the optical disorder induced by a scattering layer to access one such basis, entanglement-encoded images of arbitrary objects hidden behind the medium can be reconstructed via coincidence detection at the output. In contrast, classical imaging under identical conditions fails, producing only speckle patterns with no object information. Our work introduces a fundamentally new approach to imaging through complex media by leveraging the unique properties of quantum entanglement beyond simple optical correlations. This opens up new avenues for quantum-enhanced imaging and communication in challenging environments.

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