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Difference-phase (or Hanbury Brown - Twiss type) intensity interference of classical light is considered in higher orders in the intensity. It is shown that, while the visibility of sum-phase (NOON-type) interference for classical sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. N. Agafonov , M. V. Chekhova , T. Sh. Iskhakov , A. N. Penin

Interferometers are widely used in imaging technologies to achieve enhanced spatial resolution, but require that the incoming photons be indistinguishable. In previous work, we built and analyzed color erasure detectors which expand the…

Multi-photon interference reveals strictly non-classical phenomena. Its applications range from fundamental tests of quantum mechanics to photonic quantum information processing, where a significant fraction of key experiments achieved so…

Multiphoton quantum interference underpins fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies. Consequently, the detrimental effect of photon distinguishability in multiphoton interference experiments can be catastrophic. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Simon Laibacher , Vincenzo Tamma

We demonstrate spectroscopy of incoherent light with sub-diffraction resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment we analyze the spectrum of a pair of incoherent point-like sources whose separation is below the diffraction limit. The two…

An important topic of interest in imaging is the construction of protocols that are not diffraction limited. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, including classical superresolution techniques or quantum entanglement-based protocols.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mark E. Pearce , Thomas Mehringer , J. von Zanthier , Pieter Kok

We present experimental results demonstrating the quantum interference of two photons distinguishable in their transverse momenta, each entering the input ports of a balanced beam splitter. This counterintuitive interference effect is made…

Multi-photon interference in large multi-port interferometers is key to linear optical quantum computing and in particular to boson sampling. Silicon photonics enables complex interferometric circuits with many components in a small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bryn A. Bell , Guillaume S. Thekkadath , Renyou Ge , Xinlun Cai , Ian A. Walmsley

White balance (WB) correction in scenes with multiple illuminants remains a persistent challenge in computer vision. Recent methods explored fusion-based approaches, where a neural network linearly blends multiple sRGB versions of an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 David Serrano-Lozano , Aditya Arora , Luis Herranz , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

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

High-visibility quantum interference between independent photons is essential for demonstrating multi-photon quantum information processing, and it is closely linked to the spectral purity of correlated photon pairs. In this study, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Hsin-Pin Lo , Kai Asaoka , Hiroki Takesue

Photon correlations represent a central resource in many quantum optics experiments, with applications ranging from quantum information protocols to sensing. Engineering such correlations is often challenging, especially in multi-particle…

We present a quantum optical scheme for imaging transversely displaced thermal sources of arbitrary intensities by employing multiphoton interference with a reference single-photon Fock state at a beamsplitter. Obtaining an analytical form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Aiman Khan , Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

Photons naturally solve the BosonSampling problem: sample the outputs of a multi-photon experiment in a linear-optical interferometer. This is strongly believed to be hard to do on a classical computer, and motivates the development of…

We present measurements of the second order spatial coherence function of thermal light sources using Hanbury-Brown and Twiss interferometry with a digital correlator. We demonstrate that intensity fluctuations between orthogonal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-21 Nolan Matthews , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

The experimental characterization of multi-photon quantum interference effects in optical networks is essential in many applications of photonic quantum technologies, which include quantum computing and quantum communication as two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Álvaro Navarrete , Wenyuan Wang , Feihu Xu , Marcos Curty

We investigate the measurement of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) photon correlations as an experimental tool to discriminate different sources of photon enhancement, which are proposed to simultaneously reproduce the direct photon yield and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Nicole Löher , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jürgen Berges , Klaus Reygers

This paper proposes a novel multi-exposure image fusion method based on exposure compensation. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method to produce images without color saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yuma Kinoshita , Taichi Yoshida , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

N00N states -- maximally path-entangled states of N photons -- exhibit spatial interference patterns sharper than any classical interference pattern. This is known as super-resolution. However, even with perfectly efficient number-resolving…

We report on a quantum interference experiment to probe the coherence between two photons coming from non degenerate photon pairs at telecom wavelength created in spatially separated sources. The two photons are mixed on a beam splitter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. de Riedmatten , I. Marcikic , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden , N. Gisin