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As demonstrated by Boto et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2733 (2000)], quantum lithography offers an increase in resolution below the diffraction limit. Here, we generalize this procedure in order to create patterns in one and two dimensions.…

Quantum lithography achieves phase super-resolution using fragile, experimentally challenging entangled states of light. We propose a scalable scheme for creating features narrower than classically achievable, with reduced use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shamir Rosen , Itai Afek , Yonatan Israel , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

Breaking the diffraction limit in microscopy by utilizing quantum properties of light has been the goal of intense research in the recent years. We propose a quantum superresolution technique based on non-classical emission statistics of…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-30 Osip Schwartz , Dan Oron

We establish the multiparameter quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for simultaneously estimating the centroid, the separation, and the relative intensities of two incoherent optical point sources using alinear imaging system. For equally bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Quantum imaging with undetected photons relies on the principle of induced coherence without induced emission and uses two sources of photon-pairs with a signal- and an idler photon. Each pair shares strong quantum correlations in both…

Optical imaging methods are typically restricted to a resolution of order of the probing light wavelength $\lambda_p$ by the Rayleigh diffraction limit. This limit can be circumvented by making use of multiphoton detection of correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Qurrat-ul-Ain Gulfam , Jörg Evers

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

The Rayleigh diffraction limit imposes a fundamental restriction on the resolution of direct imaging systems, hindering the identification of incoherent optical sources, such as celestial bodies in astronomy and fluorophores in bioimaging.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Danilo Triggiani , Cosmo Lupo

We obtain the ultimate quantum limit for estimating the transverse separation of two thermal point sources using a given imaging system with limited spatial bandwidth. We show via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound that, contrary to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

The Abbe's diffraction limit restricts the resolution of an optical imaging and lithography system. Coherent Rabi oscillation is shown to be able to overcome the diffraction limit in both optical and atom lithography. In previous studies,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Anqi Zhang , Zeyang Liao , Rongxin Chen , Da-Wei Wang

Non-classical correlations in optical beams offer the unprecedented opportunity of surpassing conventional limits of sensitivity and resolution in optical measurements and imaging, especially but not only, when a low photon flux down to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Ivo Pietro Degiovanni

We consider the problem of the measurement of very small displacements in the transverse plane of an optical image with a split photodetector. We show that the standard quantum limit for such a measurement, which is equal to the diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claude Fabre , J. -B. Fouet , Agnès Maître

A quantum wavemetry scheme based on the coherence de Broglie wavelength (CBW) is proposed using an M coupled Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI) architecture to achieve superresolution sensing and metrology. Although CBW does not attain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 B. S. Ham

We implement a general imaging method by measuring the complex degree of coherence using linear optics and photon number resolving detectors. In the absence of collective or entanglement assisted measurements, our method is optimal over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 L. A. Howard , G. G. Gillett , M. E. Pearce , R. A. Abrahao , T. J. Weinhold , P. Kok , A. G. White

We propose a nonlinear imaging scheme with undetected photons that overcomes the diffraction limit by transferring near-field information at one wavelength to far-field information of a correlated photon with a different wavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Elkin A. Santos , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Sina Saravi

We present an advanced quantum super-resolution imaging technique based on photon statistics measurement and its accurate modeling. Our reconstruction algorithm adapts to any kind of non-Poissonian emitters, outperforming the corresponding…

The classical bound on image resolution defined by the Rayleigh limit can be beaten by exploiting the properties of quantum mechanical entanglement. If entangled photons are used as signal states, the best possible resolution is instead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gilbert , M. Hamrick , Y. S. Weinstein , S. P. Pappas , A. Donadio

We proposed a method to achieve superresolved optical imaging without beating the diffraction limit of light. This is achieved by magnifying the ideal optical image of the object through higher-order spatial frequency generation while…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-08 Zhixiang Li , Jianji Liu , Guoquan Zhang

Indistinguishable quantum states interfere, but the mere possibility of obtaining information that could distinguish between overlapping states inhibits quantum interference. Quantum interference imaging can outperform classical imaging or…

Quantum entanglement and squeezing have significantly improved phase estimation and imaging in interferometric settings beyond the classical limits. However, for a wide class of non-interferometric phase imaging/retrieval methods vastly…