Abstract
This paper attempts to outline the fundamental limits of the photoelectric measurement process, to give a simple picture of how their consequences can be estimated and to describe recent ideas and experimental work on how to use the current understanding of photodetection to make measurements previously thought to be beyond the quantum limit.
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