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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…

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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…

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Quantum correlation microscopy is an emerging technique for improving optical resolution. By taking advantage of the quantum statistics from single-photon fluorophores, more information about the emitters (including number and location) is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-19 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Qiang Sun , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

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

For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps

Astronomers working with faint targets will benefit greatly from improved image quality on current and planned ground-based telescopes. At present, most adaptive optic systems are targeted at the highest resolution with bright guide stars.…

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Fourth-order interference is an information processing primitive for photonic quantum technologies. When used in conjunction with post-selection, it forms the basis of photonic controlled logic gates, entangling measurements, and can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 J. Cariñe , M. Asan-Srain , G. Lima , S. P. Walborn

Intensity correlation microscopy (ICM), which is prominently known through antibunching microscopy or super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI), provides superresolution through a correlation analysis of antibunching of…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-08 Anton Classen , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

Superradiance typically requires preparation of atoms in highly entangled multi-particle states, the so-called Dicke states. In this paper we discuss an alternative route where we prepare such states from initially uncorrelated atoms by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 R. Wiegner , S. Oppel , D. Bhatti , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ugo Zanforlin , Cosmo Lupo , Peter W. R. Connolly , Pieter Kok , Gerald S. Buller , Zixin Huang

The resolution of optical imaging devices is ultimately limited by the diffraction of light. To circumvent this limit, modern super-resolution microscopy techniques employ active interaction with the object by exploiting its optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 A. A. Pushkina , G. Maltese , J. I. Costa-Filho , P. Patel , A. I. Lvovsky

Established x-ray diffraction methods allow for high-resolution structure determination of crystals, crystallized protein structures or even single molecules. While these techniques rely on coherent scattering, incoherent processes like…

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

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We propose a novel method to perform plenoptic imaging at the diffraction limit by measuring second-order correlations of light between two reference planes, arbitrarily chosen, within the tridimensional scene of interest. We show that for…

The inherent non-linearity of intensity correlation functions can be used to spatially distinguish identical emitters beyond the diffraction limit, as achieved, for example, in Super-Resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging (SOFI). Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Yifan Chen , Chieh Tsao , Hendrik Utzat

Recent works identified resolution limits for the distance between incoherent point sources. However, it remains unclear how to choose suitable observables and estimators to reach these limits in practical situations. Here, we show how…

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

Density Functional Theory has long struggled to obtain the exact exchange-correlational (XC) functional. Numerous approximations have been designed with the hope of achieving chemical accuracy. However, designing a functional involves…

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We introduce and describe a technique for distance sensing, based on second-order interferometry of thermal light. The method is based on measuring correlation between intensity fluctuations on two detectors, and provides estimates of the…

Correlated rotational alignment spectroscopy correlates observables of ultrafast gas-phase spectroscopy with high-resolution, broad-band rotational Raman spectra. This article reviews the measurement principle of CRASY, existing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Thomas Schultz

Many-body interference between indistinguishable particles can give rise to strong correlations rooted in quantum statistics. We study such Hanbury Brown-Twiss-type correlations for number states of ultracold massive fermions. Using…