Stochastic Speckle Discrimination with Time-tagged Photon Lists: Digging below the Speckle Noise Floor
Stochastic Speckle Discrimination with Time-tagged Photon Lists: Digging below the Speckle Noise Floor
We present an algorithm that uses the distribution of photon arrival times to distinguish speckles from incoherent sources, like planets and disks, in high-contrast images. Using simulated data, we show that our approach can overcome the noise limit from fluctuating speckle intensity. The algorithm is likely to be most advantageous …