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We outline a technique called Dual Plane Imaging which should significantly improve images which would otherwise be blurred due to atmospheric turbulence. The technique involves capturing all the spatial, directional and temporal…

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We present a scalable scheme to achieve photon distillation, i.e. the preparation of a single photon with reduced indistinguishability error out of multiple imperfect photons, based on multiphoton interference in Fourier matrices. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 F. H. B. Somhorst , B. K. Sauër , S. N. van den Hoven , J. J. Renema

Stimulated photon-photon scattering is a predicted consequence of quantum electrodynamics that has yet to be measured directly. Measuring the cross-section for stimulated photon-photon scattering is the aim of a flagship experiment for NSF…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 Hans G. Rinderknecht , E. Dill , A. J. MacLeod , B. King , K. Sow , S. -W. Bahk , I. A. Begishev , F. Karbstein , J. Schreiber , M. Zepf , A. Di Piazza

Nearly 30 years ago, two-photon interference was observed, marking the beginning of a new quantum era. Indeed, two-photon interference has no classical analogue, giving it a distinct advantage for a range of applications. The peculiarities…

The evolution of X-ray detection technology has significantly enhanced sensitivity and spatial resolution in non-destructive imaging of internal structure. However, the problem of low luminescence and transparency of scintillator materials…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-16 Tatsunori Shibuya , Eichi Terasawa , Hiromi Kimura , Takeshi Fujiwara

We present a scheme for eliminating the optical diffraction of slow-light in a thermal atomic medium of electromagnetically induced transparency. Nondiffraction is achieved for an arbitrary paraxial image by manipulating the susceptibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 O. Firstenberg , M. Shuker , N. Davidson , A. Ron

In this work I demonstrate the interference of three photons, a generalisation of the famous Hong Ou Mandel (HOM) interference. I show that three-photon interference is governed by four parameters and measure three-photon interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Adrian J Menssen

X-ray imaging allows for a non-invasive image of the internal structure of an object. The most common form of X-ray imaging, projectional radiography, is simply a projection or "shadow" of the object rather than a point-to-point image…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-15 Thomas A. Smith , Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

We present a quantum interference phenomenon in which four-photon quantum states generated by two independent sources are used to create a two-photon interference pattern without detecting two of the photons. Contrary to the common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Chandler Tarrant , Mayukh Lahiri

I report the result of a which-way experiment based on Young's double-slit experiment. It reveals which slit photons go through while retaining the (self) interference of all the photons collected. The idea is to image the slits using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Hu Zhan

One tough problem of image inpainting is to restore complex structures in the corrupted regions. It motivates interactive image inpainting which leverages additional hints, e.g., sketches, to assist the inpainting process. Sketch is simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Chang Liu , Shunxin Xu , Jialun Peng , Kaidong Zhang , Dong Liu

We consider the inelastic scattering of two photons from two qubits separated by an arbitrary distance $R$ and coupled to a one-dimensional transmission line. We present an exact, analytical solution to the problem, and use it to explore a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Matti Laakso , Mikhail Pletyukhov

Two-Photon Laser-Scanning Microscopy is a powerful tool for exploring biological structure and function because of its ability to optically section through a sample with a tight focus. While it is possible to obtain 3D image stacks by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Courtney Johnson , Jack Exell , Jonathon Kuo , Kevin Welsher

Spatially entangled photon pairs (biphotons) generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion offer unique opportunities for quantum imaging, but image-plane biphoton correlations are difficult to observe with camera-based detectors.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 David McFadden , Rainer Heintzmann

We consider imaging in a scattering medium where the illumination goes through this medium but there is also an auxiliary, passive receiver array that is near the object to be imaged. Instead of imaging with the source-receiver array on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou

Scattering has usually be considered as detrimental for optical focusing or imaging. Recently, more and more research has shown that strongly scattering materials can be utilized to focus coherent light by controlling or shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yanqi Qiao , Xianfeng Chen , Yajun Peng , Yuanlin Zheng

Quantum entanglement has emerged as a great resource for interactions between molecules and radiation. We propose a new paradigm of stimulated Raman scattering with entangled photons. A quantum ultrafast Raman spectroscopy is developed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Joel Jiahao Fan , Zhe-Yu Jeff Ou , Zhedong Zhang

We introduce a formalism to solve the problem of photon scattering from a system of multi-level quantum emitters. Our approach provides a direct solution of the scattering dynamics. As such the formalism gives the scattered fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumanta Das , Vincent E. Elfving , Florentin Reiter , Anders S. Sørensen

Multi-photon interference is central to photonic quantum information processing and quantum simulation, usually requiring multiple sources of non-classical light followed by a unitary transformation on their modes. Here, we observe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bryn A. Bell , Benjamin J. Eggleton

We study the focusing of light through random photonic materials using wavefront shaping. We explore a novel approach namely binary amplitude modulation. To this end, the light incident to a random photonic medium is spatially divided into…