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Quantum metrology of an incoherent signal is a canonical sensing problem related to superresolution and noise spectroscopy. We show that quantum computing can accelerate searches for a weak incoherent signal when the signal and noise are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 James W. Gardner , Federico Belliardo , Gideon Lee , Tuvia Gefen , Liang Jiang

High-throughput computational imaging requires efficient processing algorithms to retrieve multi-dimensional and multi-scale information. In computational phase imaging, phase retrieval (PR) is required to reconstruct both amplitude and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Xuyang Chang , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

Quantum interferometry methods exploit quantum resources, such as photonic entanglement, to enhance phase estimation beyond classical limits. Nonlinear optics has served as a workhorse for the generation of entangled photon pairs, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Romain Dalidet , Anthony Martin , Grégory Sauder , Laurent Labonté , Sébastien Tanzilli

Advances in quantum technologies are accelerating the demand for optical quantum state sensors that combine high precision, versatility, and scalability within a unified hardware platform. Quantum reservoir computing offers a powerful route…

It is shown that the addition of down-converted photon pairs to coherent laser light enhances the N-photon phase sensitivity due to the quantum interference between components of the same total photon number. Since most of the photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 Takafumi Ono , Holger F. Hofmann

Very low intensity and phase fluctuations are present in a bright light field such as a laser beam. These subtle quantum fluctuations may be used to encode quantum information. Although intensity is easily measured with common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro S. Villar

Quantum algorithms for diverse problems, including search and optimization problems, require the implementation of a reflection operator over a target state. Commonly, such reflections are approximately implemented using phase estimation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Yigit Subasi , Rolando D. Somma

Light is a major carrier of information about the world around us, from the microcosmos to the macrocosmos. The present methods of detection are sensitive both to robust features, such as intensity, or polarization, and to more subtle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Z. Hradil , J. Rehacek , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

The manipulation of quantum entanglement has found enormous potential for improving performances of devices such as gyroscopes, clocks, and even computers. Similar improvements have been demonstrated for lithography and microscopy. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

We perform quantitative phase imaging using phase retrieval to implement synthetic aperture imaging. Compared to digital holography, the developed technique is simpler, less expensive, and more stable.

Optics · Physics 2016-09-07 Dennis J. Lee , Andrew M. Weiner

If the phase retrieval problem can be solved by a method similar to that of solving a system of linear equations under the context of FFT, the time complexity of computer based phase retrieval algorithm would be reduced. Here I present such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Yuan Sun

Phase-retrieval from coded diffraction patterns (CDP) is important to X-ray crystallography, diffraction tomography and astronomical imaging, yet remains a hard, non-convex inverse problem. We show that CDP recovery can be reformulated…

This paper considers phase retrieval from the magnitude of 1D over-sampled Fourier measurements, a classical problem that has challenged researchers in various fields of science and engineering. We show that an optimal vector in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Kejun Huang , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Fourier phase retrieval is the problem of reconstructing a signal given only the magnitude of its Fourier transformation. Optimization-based approaches, like the well-established Gerchberg-Saxton or the hybrid input output algorithm,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Tobias Uelwer , Tobias Hoffmann , Stefan Harmeling

Conventional wisdom dictates that to image the position of fluorescent atoms or molecules, one should stimulate as much emission and collect as many photons as possible. That is, in this classical case, it has always been assumed that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Guang Hao Low , Theodore J. Yoder , Isaac L. Chuang

Iterative phase retrieval methods based on the Gerchberg-Saxton (GS) or Fienup algorithm require a large number of iterations to converge to a meaningful solution. For complex-valued or phase objects, these approaches also suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Mansi Butola , Sunaina , Kedar Khare

Image classification is an important task in the field of machine learning and image processing. However, the usually used classification method --- the K Nearest-Neighbor algorithm has high complexity, because its two main processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yijie Dang , Nan Jiang , Hao Hu , Zhuoxiao Ji , Wenyin Zhang

As a signal recovery algorithm, compressed sensing is particularly useful when the data has low-complexity and samples are rare, which matches perfectly with the task of quantum phase estimation (QPE). In this work we present a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-01 Changhao Yi , Cunlu Zhou , Jun Takahashi

Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Haoshuo Chen , Nicolas K. Fontaine , Joan M. Gene , Roland Ryf , David T. Neilson , Gregory Raybon

Proofs of the quantum advantage available in imaging or detecting objects under quantum illumination can rely on optimal measurements without specifying what they are. We use the continuous-variable Gaussian quantum information formalism to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Hao Yang , Wojciech Roga , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers