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Astronomical quantum optics with Extremely Large Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2006

D. Dravins ,
C. Barbieri ,
R. A. E. Fosbury ,
G. Naletto ,
R. Nilsson ,
T. Occhipinti ,
F. Tamburini ,
H. Uthas  and
L. Zampieri
D. Dravins
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden, email: dainis@astro.lu.se
C. Barbieri
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy, email: cesare.barbieri@unipd.it
R. A. E. Fosbury
Affiliation:
ST-ECF, Garching bei München, Germany, email: rfosbury@eso.org
G. Naletto
Affiliation:
Department of Information Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy, email: naletto@dei.unipd.it
R. Nilsson
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden, email: ricky@astro.lu.se
T. Occhipinti
Affiliation:
Dept. of Inform. Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy, email: tommaso.occhipinti@dei.unipd.it
F. Tamburini
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy, email: tamburini@pd.astro.it
H. Uthas
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden, email: helena@astro.lu.se
L. Zampieri
Affiliation:
INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy, email: zampieri@pd.astro.it
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Abstract

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Modern optics focuses on photonics and quantum optics, studying individual photons and statistics of photon streams. Those can be complex and carry information beyond that recorded by imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry or interferometry. Since [almost] all astronomy is based upon the interpretation of subtleties in the light from astronomical sources, quantum optics has the potential of becoming another information channel from the Universe. The observability of quantum statistics increases rapidly with telescope size making photonic astronomy very timely in an era of very large telescopes.

Keywords

instrumentation: photometers — techniques: spectroscopic — methods: data analysis — radiation mechanisms: nonthermal — methods: statistical — telescopes