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Optical absorption imaging is a basic detection technique for obtaining information from matter waves, in which the absorption signal can be obtained by comparing the recorded detection light field with the light field in the presence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-03 Linxiao Niu , Xinxin Guo , Yuan Zhan , Xuzong Chen , W. M. Liu , Xiaoji Zhou

High-sensitivity imaging of ultracold atoms is often challenging when interference patterns are imprinted on the imaging light. Such image noises result in low signal-to-noise ratio and limit the capability to extract subtle physical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Song , Chengdong He , Zejian Ren , Entong Zhao , Jeongwon Lee , Gyu-Boong Jo

The noise in absorption imaging of cold atoms significantly impacts measurement accuracy across a range of applications with ultracold atoms. It is crucial to adopt an approach that offers effective denoising capabilities without…

We demonstrate a new tool for filtering technical and electronic noises from pulses of light, especially relevant for signal processing methods in quantum optics experiments as a means to achieve the shot-noise level and reduce strong…

Resonant frequency modulation spectroscopy has been previously used as a highly-sensitive method for measuring the output of cold atom interferometers. Using a detailed model that accounts for optical saturation, laser intensities and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Ryan J. Thomas , Samuel R. Legge , Simon A. Haine , John D. Close

We use an optical cavity to detect single atoms magnetically trapped on an atom chip. We implement the detection using both fluorescence into the cavity and reduction in cavity transmission due to the presence of atoms. In fluorescence, we…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor Teper , Yu-Ju Lin , Vladan Vuletic

We introduce a new method, rooted in estimation theory, to detect individual atoms in site-resolved images of microtrap arrays, such as optical lattices or optical tweezers arrays. Using labelled test images, we demonstrate drastic…

Photon-number squeezing and correlations enable measurement of absorption with an accuracy exceeding that of the shot-noise limit. However, sub-shot noise imaging and sensing based on these methods require high detection efficiency, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 E. Knyazev , F. Ya. Khalili , M. V. Chekhova

We obtain an information theoretic criterion for the feasibility of assembling diffraction signals from noisy tomographs when the positions of the tomographs within the signal are unknown. For shot-noise limited data, the minimum number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-09-26 Veit Elser

We experimentally demonstrate a detection scheme suitable for state analysis of single optically trapped atoms in less than 1 {\mu}s with an overall detection efficiency {\eta} exceeding 98%. The method is based on hyperfine-state-selective…

Extracting information from weak optical signals is a critical challenge across a broad range of technologies. Conventional imaging techniques, constrained to integrating over detected signals and classical post-processing, are limited in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Aleksandr Mokeev , Babak Saif , Mikhail D. Lukin , Johannes Borregaard

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Many cold atom experiments rely on precise atom number detection, especially in the context of quantum-enhanced metrology where effects at the single particle level are important. Here, we investigate the limits of atom number counting via…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 D. B. Hume , I. Stroescu , M. Joos , W. Muessel , H. Strobel , M. K. Oberthaler

The analysis of entangled atomic ensembles and their application for interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit requires an accurate determination of the number of atoms. We present an accurate fluorescence detection technique for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 A. Hüper , C. Pür , M. Hetzel , J. Geng , J. Peise , I. Kruse , M. Kristensen , W. Ertmer , J. Arlt , C. Klempt

This article suggests an algorithm of impulse noise filtration, based on the community detection in graphs. The image is representing as non-oriented weighted graph. Each pixel of an image is corresponding to a vertex of the graph.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 S. V. Belim , S. B. Larionov

We demonstrate that a dispersive imaging technique based on the Faraday effect can measure the atom number in a large, ultracold atom cloud with a precision below the atom shot noise level. The minimally destructive character of the…

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied to 3D imaging in challenging scenarios. However, limited signal photon counts and high noises in the collected data have posed great challenges for predicting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Gongxin Yao , Yiwei Chen , Yong Liu , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

We have developed a new method that uses wavelet analysis to remove interference fringe patterns from images. This method is particularly useful for flat fields in the common case where fringes vary between the calibration and object data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Patricio Rojo , Joseph Harrington

Interference of light fields plays an important role in various high-precision measurement schemes. It has been shown that super resolving phase measurements beyond the standard coherent state limit can be obtained either by using maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Emanuele Distante , Miroslav Jezek , Ulrik L. Andersen

Atom interferometers are promising tools for precision measurement with applications ranging from geophysical exploration to tests of the equivalence principle of general relativity, or the detection of gravitational waves. Their optimal…

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