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We show that far field diffraction image of spontaneously scattered Stokes photons can be used for detection of spin entanglement and for metrology of fields gradients in cold atomic ensembles. For many-body states with small or maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

Optical imaging through scattering media is a long-standing challenge. Although many approaches have been developed to focus light or image objects through scattering media, they are either invasive, restricted to stationary or…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xingchen Zhao , Xiaoyu Nie , Zhenhuan Yi , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

We consider the sensing of scalar valued fields with specific spatial dependence using a network of sensors, e.g. multiple atoms located at different positions within a trap. We show how to harness the spatial correlations to sense only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Arne Hamann , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

We introduce a self-referenced method for quantum-state tomography of light based on photon-number-resolved double-slit interferometry. Two identical copies of the unknown quantum field illuminate laterally displaced slits, guaranteeing…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-10 Matan Even Tzur

We present a method to estimate dense depth by optimizing a sparse set of points such that their diffusion into a depth map minimizes a multi-view reprojection error from RGB supervision. We optimize point positions, depths, and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

We demonstrate a different scheme to perform optical sectioning of a sample based on the concept of induced coherence [Zou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 318 (1991)]. This can be viewed as a different type of optical coherence tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Adam Vallés , Gerard Jiménez , Luis José Salazar-Serrano , Juan P. Torres

Quantum-optimal discrimination between one and two closely separated light sources can be achieved by ideal spatial-mode demultiplexing, simply monitoring whether a photon is detected in a single antisymmetric mode. However, we show that…

Phase is a fundamental resource for optical imaging but cannot be directly observed with intensity measurements. The existing methods to quantify a phase distribution rely on complex devices and structures. Here we experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-25 Tengfeng Zhu , Junyi Huang , Zhichao Ruan

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This is problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as in optimal photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , James Bock , Yun-Ting Cheng , Brendan Crill , Christopher Hirata , Stephanie Venuto

Entangled-photon coincidence imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting a pair of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system, respectively. The image of the object can be extracted from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

Despite super-resolution fluorescence blinking microscopes break the diffraction limit, the intense phototoxic illumination and long-term image sequences thus far still pose to major challenges in visualizing live-organisms. Here, we…

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

Computational photography encompasses a diversity of imaging techniques, but one of the core operations performed by many of them is to compute image differences. An intuitive approach to computing such differences is to capture several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Clara Callenberg , Felix Heide , Gordon Wetzstein , Matthias Hullin

In recent years, computational Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging has emerged as an exciting and a novel imaging modality that offers new and powerful interpretations of natural scenes, with applications extending to 3D, light-in-flight, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari

We derive the likelihood of a raw signal in a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD), given a fixed photon flux. The raw signal comprises timing of detection events, which are nonlinearly related to the flux. Moreover, they are naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Lior Dvir , Nadav Torem , Yoav Y. Schechner

High-dimensional biphoton states are promising resources for quantum applications, ranging from high-dimensional quantum communications to quantum imaging. A pivotal task is fully characterising these states, which is generally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Danilo Zia , Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Fabio Sciarrino , Ebrahim Karimi

Ultrafast imaging of photon statistics in two dimensions is a powerful tool for probing non-equilibrium and transient optical phenomena, yet it remains experimentally challenging due to the simultaneous need for high temporal resolution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 C. Hainaut , K. Ouahrouche , A. Rancon , G. Patera , C. Ouarkoub , M. Le Parquier , P. Suret , A. Amo

Light rays incident on a transparent object of uniform refractive index undergo deflections, which uniquely characterize the surface geometry of the object. Associated with each point on the surface is a deflection map (or spectrum) which…

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