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Given an image generated by the convolution of point sources with a band-limited function, the deconvolution problem is to reconstruct the source number, positions, and amplitudes. This problem arises from many important applications in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Ping Liu , Hai Zhang

We prove several minimal photon velocity estimates below the ionization threshold for a particle system coupled to the quantized electromagnetic or phonon field. Using some of these results, we prove the asymptotic completeness (for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Jeremy Faupin , Israel Michael Sigal

In this note we provide details of the proofs of the main results of our paper [19] to the standard model of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics in which particles are minimally coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-02 Jeremy Faupin , Israel Michael Sigal

By the use of both perturbative and non-perturbative solutions of the reduced Rayleigh equation, we present a detailed study of the scattering of light from two-dimensional weakly rough dielectric films. It is shown that for several rough…

The near-field scanning optical microscopic (NSOM) imaging of Au nanoparticles with size in the sub-wavelength limit (<wavelength/2N.A.) is reported. The NSOM imaging technique can resolve the objects which is beyond the scope of optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-23 Prajit Dhara , A. K. Sivadasan

Ptychography has become prominent at synchrotron facilities worldwide for characterizing biological and material specimens' topological structures and properties at the nanometer or atomic scale, due to its lens - less, highly quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Tao Liu , Bingyang Wang , JiangTao Zhao , Maik Kahnt , Fucai Zhang

A recently identified class of receivers which demultiplex an optical field into a set of orthogonal spatial modes prior to detection can surpass canonical diffraction limits on spatial resolution for simple incoherent imaging tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael R Grace , Zachary Dutton , Amit Ashok , Saikat Guha

Photon statistics of an optical field can be used for quantum optical sensing in low light level scenarios free of bulky optical components. However, photon-number-resolving detection to unravel the photon statistics is challenging. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 F. Bao , L. Bauer , A. E. Rubio Lopez , Z. Jacob

Rayleigh's criterion states that resolving point sources below the point spread function width is impossible, with error increasing at shorter distances, known as Rayleigh's curse. While detection mode shaping solves this for equal sources,…

The diffraction of a scalar plane wave from a doubly-periodic surface on which either the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition is imposed is studied by means of a rigorous numerical solution of the Rayleigh equation for the amplitudes of…

Imaging point sources with low angular separation near or below the Rayleigh criterion is important in astronomy, e.g., in the search for habitable exoplanets near stars. However, the measurement time required to resolve stars in the…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Fanglin Bao , Hyunsoo Choi , Vaneet Aggarwal , Zubin Jacob

Precision measurement has been an important research area in sensing and metrology. In classical physics, the Fisher information determines the maximum extractable information from statistically unknown signals, based on a joint probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Byoung S. Ham

Imaging of the optical properties of individual nanosystems beyond fluorescence can provide a wealth of information. However, the minute signals for absorption and dispersion are challenging to observe, and only specialized techniques…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-10 Matthias Mader , Jakob Reichel , Theodor W. Hänsch , David Hunger

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

A broad range of scientific and industrial disciplines require precise optical measurements at very low light levels. Single-photon detectors combining high efficiency and high time resolution are pivotal in such experiments. By using…

We consider the problem of estimating the spatial separation between two mutually incoherent point light sources using the super-resolution imaging technique based on spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detectors. We show that in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Yink Loong Len , Chandan Datta , Michał Parniak , Konrad Banaszek

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Sensitivity limits are usually determined using the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Recently this approach has been used to obtain the ultimate resolution limit for the estimation of the separation between two incoherent point sources. However, methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Mattia Walschaers , Nicolas Treps

Random scattering is usually viewed as a serious nuisance in optical imaging, and needs to be prevented in the conventional imaging scheme based on single-photon interference. Here we proposed a two-photon imaging scheme with the widely…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-25 Peilong Hong