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Scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a promising technique for overcoming Abbe diffraction limit and substantially enhancing the spatial resolution in spectroscopic imaging. The s-SNOM works by exposing an atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Soheil Khajavi , Zahra Shaterzadeh-Yazdi , Ali Eghrari , Mohammad Neshat

The detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets is one of the major science drivers for the next generation of telescopes. Current direct imaging instruments are limited by evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPAs). The NCPAs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Sebastiaan Y. Haffert

We show a simple yet effective method that can be used to characterize the per pixel quantum efficiency and temporal resolution of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging applications. Utilizing photon pairs generated through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Victor Vidyapin , Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

We experimentally investigated a single-qubit quantum classifier implemented on a silicon photonic integrated circuit, focusing on its performance under photon-limited conditions. Using the Data Reuploading method with layer-wise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Shunsuke Abe , Shota Tateishi , Roga Wojciech , Masahiro Takeoka , Takafumi Ono

A multi-imaging strategy is proposed and experimentally tested to improve the accuracy of photon counting with an electron multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD), by taking into account the random nature of its on-chip gain and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Lantz , Jean Luc Blanchet , Luca Furfaro , Fabrice Devaux

Single-photon detectors are widely used in modern quantum optics experiments and applications. Like all detectors, it is important for these devices to be accurately calibrated. A single-photon detector is calibrated by determining its…

The observation of spatial quantum noise reduction, or spatial squeezing, with a large number of photons can lead to a significant advantage in quantum imaging and quantum metrology due to the scaling of the signal-to-noise ratio with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ashok Kumar , Alberto M. Marino

We present an efficient way for measuring the entanglement of the atoms. Through the auxiliary single photons input-output process in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), the concurrence of the atomic entanglement can be obtained according…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou

We describe a new technique of quantum astrometry, which potentially can improve the resolution of optical interferometers by orders of magnitude. The approach requires fast imaging of single photons with sub-nanosecond resolution, greatly…

We propose an atom-cavity chip that combines laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms with magnetic microtraps and waveguides to deliver a cold atom to the mode of a fiber taper coupled photonic bandgap (PBG) cavity. The feasibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Benjamin Lev , Kartik Srinivasan , Paul Barclay , Oskar Painter , Hideo Mabuchi

Quantum imaging exploits the spatial correlations between photons to image object features with a higher resolution than a corresponding classical light source could achieve. Using a quantum correlated $N$-photon state, the method of…

Single-pixel cameras are an effective solution for imaging outside the visible spectrum, where traditional CMOS/CCD cameras have challenges. When combined with machine learning, they can analyze images quickly enough for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Sofya Manko , Dmitry Frolovtsev

Semi monolithic detector designs with a series of stacked thin monolithic scintillator plates and side readout are an attractive approach for potentially achieving very high performance in a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-12 Shiv K. Subedi , Simon R. Cherry , Yi Qiang , Peng Peng

The conventional high-level sensing techniques require high-fidelity images as input to extract target features, which are produced by either complex imaging hardware or high-complexity reconstruction algorithms. In this letter, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Hao Fu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

With Rydberg dipole interactions, a mesoscopic atomic ensemble may behave like a two-level single atom, resulting in the so-called picture of superatom. It is in potential a strong candidate as a qubit in quantum information science,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Chao-Wei Yang , Jun Li , Ming-Ti Zhou , Xiao Jiang , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

We propose a new technique for the detection of single atoms in ultracold quantum gases. The technique is based on scanning electron microscopy and employs the electron impact ionization of trapped atoms with a focussed electron probe.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Gericke , C. Utfeld , N. Hommerstad , H. Ott

Coherent low-energy electrons have been demonstrated as a practical tool for imaging individual macromolecules and two-dimensional (2D) crystals. Low-energy electrons exhibit unique properties: low radiation damage to biological molecules…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-29 Tatiana Latychevskaia

Real-world quantum applications, eg. on-chip quantum networks and quantum cryptography, necessitate large scale integrated single-photon sources with nanoscale footprint for modern information technology. While on-demand and high fidelity…

While single-photon counting is routinely achieved in the optical domain, operational single microwave photon detectors (SMPDs) have only recently been demonstrated. SMPDs are critical for sensing weak signals from incoherent emitters, with…

We report on a novel device capable of imaging second-order spatio-temporal correlations g2(x,t) between photons. The imager is based on a monolithic array of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) implemented in CMOS technology and a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-11 D. L. Boiko , N. J. Gunther , N. Brauer , M. Sergio , C. Niclass , G. B. Beretta , E. Charbon