Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47453#.VFm3lWfHRK0 Author(s) Lev B. Levitin , Tommaso Toffoli Affiliation(s) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA . Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA . ABSTRACT We consider the physical limitations imposed on the information content of an image by the wave and quantum nature of light, when the image is obtained by illuminating a reflecting or transmitting planar object by natural ( i.e. , fully thermalized) light, or by observation of an object emitting incoherent (thermal) radiation. The discreteness of the degrees of freedom and the st...
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