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The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

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We implement an estimator for determining the separation between two incoherent point sources. This estimator relies on image inversion interferometry and when used with the appropriate data analytics, it yields an estimate of the…

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We report the experimental super-resolution of pairs of point-like fluorescent sources using a modified image inversion interferometer microscope. The technique is inspired by recent developments in the application of quantum parameter…

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

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert I. Reid

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

Improving axial resolution is crucial for three-dimensional optical imaging systems. Here we present a scheme of axial superresolution for two incoherent point sources based on spatial mode demultiplexing. A radial mode sorter is used to…

We analyze the fundamental resolution of incoherent optical point sources from the perspective of a quantum detection problem: deciding whether the optical field on the image plane is generated by one source or two weaker sources with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Xiao-Ming Lu , Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

Superresolution refers to the estimation of parameters of an image with an accuracy beyond standard classical techniques such as direct detection. In seminal work by Lu et al., a measurement to estimate the separation distance of two point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Hari Krovi

Widely distributed optical fibers, together with phase-sensitive laser interferometry, can expand seismic detection methods and have great potential for epicenter localization. In this paper, we propose an integral response method based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-29 Bohan Zhang , Guan Wang , Zhongwang Pang , Bo Wang

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Rayleigh's criterion for resolving two incoherent point sources has been the most influential measure of optical imaging resolution for over a century. In the context of statistical image processing, violation of the criterion is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Mankei Tsang , Ranjith Nair , Xiao-Ming Lu

We consider the problem of reconstructing one-dimensional point sources from their Fourier measurements in a bounded interval $[-\Omega, \Omega]$. This problem is known to be challenging in the regime where the spacing of the sources is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Zetao Fei , Hai Zhang

The Rayleigh's criterion infamously imposes a minimum separation between two incoherent sources for them to be distinguishable via classical methods. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of two-photon beats from the interference of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Salvatore Muratore , Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

The resolution of a conventional telescope used to image visible-light synchrotron radiation is often limited by diffraction effects. To improve resolution, the double-slit interferometer method was developed at KEK and has since become…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Chunlei Li , Mark Boland , Jeff Corbett , Matan Grinberg , Toshiyuki Mitsuhashi , Yahong Xu , Wenjun Zhang

We solve the general problem of determining, through imaging, the three-dimensional positions of $N$ weak incoherent point-like emitters in an arbitrary spatial configuration. We show that a structured measurement strategy in which a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok

Transient radio signals of astrophysical origin present an avenue for studying the dynamic universe. With the next generation of radio interferometers being planned and built, there is great potential for detecting and studying large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cathryn M. Trott , Randall B. Wayth , Jean-Pierre R. Macquart , Steven J. Tingay

Resolving high-contrast targets is a fundamental yet highly challenging task in astronomy. Using quantum estimation theory, we demonstrate that the ultimate limit for estimating the separation between two unequal-brightness thermal sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Chenyu Hu , Ben Wang , Jiandong Zhang , Kunxu Wang , Huigen Liu , Jilin Zhou , Lijian Zhang

Rayleigh's criterion states that it becomes essentially difficult to resolve two incoherent optical point sources separated by a distance below the width of point spread functions (PSF), namely in the subdiffraction limit. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

In this work we present a new algorithm for data deconvolution that allows the retrieval of the target function with super-resolution with a simple approach that after a precis e measurement of the instrument response function (IRF), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Sandra Martínez , Oscar E. Martínez
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