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An important topic of interest in imaging is the construction of protocols that are not diffraction limited. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, including classical superresolution techniques or quantum entanglement-based protocols.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mark E. Pearce , Thomas Mehringer , J. von Zanthier , Pieter Kok

Accurately establishing the state of large-scale quantum systems is an important tool in quantum information science; however, the large number of unknown parameters hinders the rapid characterisation of such states, and reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Francesco Tonolini , Susan Chan , Megan Agnew , Alan Lindsay , Jonathan Leach

Maximum likelihood iteration is one of the most commonly used reconstruction algorithms in quantum tomography. The main appeal of the method is that it is easy to implement and that it converges reliably to a physically meaningful density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Florian Oberender

We present a novel quantum tomographic reconstruction method based on Bayesian inference via the Kalman filter update equations. The method not only yields the maximum likelihood/optimal Bayesian reconstruction, but also a covariance matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , S. Scheel

The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcomes of different projective measurements to deliver a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Francesco Di Colandrea , Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

Properties of quantum states have disclosed new and revolutionary technologies, ranging from quantum information to quantum imaging. This last field is addressed to overcome limits of classical imaging by exploiting specific properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giorgio Brida , Marco Genovese , Alice Meda , Ivano Ruo Berchera

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

We present a conceptual approach to quantum tomography based on first expanding a quantum state across extra degrees of freedom and then exploiting the introduced sparsity to perform reconstruction. We formulate its application to photonic…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-19 James Titchener , Alexander Solntsev , Andrey Sukhorukov

This paper investigates the shape reconstructions of sub-wavelength objects from near-field measurements in transverse electromagnetic scattering. This geometric inverse problem is notoriously ill-posed and challenging. We develop a novel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. H. Ding , H. Y. Liu , G. H. Zheng

Photon correlations represent a central resource in many quantum optics experiments, with applications ranging from quantum information protocols to sensing. Engineering such correlations is often challenging, especially in multi-particle…

High resolution reconstruction of complicated objects from incomplete and noisy data can be achieved by solving modulation equations iteratively under physical constraints. This direct demodulation method is a powerful technique for dealing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ti-Pei Li , Mei Wu

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

Inverse problems span across diverse fields. In medical contexts, computed tomography (CT) plays a crucial role in reconstructing a patient's internal structure, presenting challenges due to artifacts caused by inherently ill-posed inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Ishak Ayad , Nicolas Larue , Maï K. Nguyen

Illumination using correlated photon sources has been established as an approach to allowing high-fidelity images to be reconstructed from noisy camera frames by taking advantage of the knowledge that signal photons are spatially correlated…

Quantum tomography approaches typically consider a set of observables which we wish to measure, design a measurement scheme which measures each of the observables and then repeats the measurements as many times as necessary. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Otto Veltheim , Esko Keski-Vakkuri

We demonstrate that sub-wavelength optical images borne on partially-spatially-incoherent light can be recovered, from their far-field or from the blurred image, given the prior knowledge that the image is sparse, and only that. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Yoav Shechtman , Yonina C. Eldar , Alexander Szameit , Mordechai Segev

Quantum sensing encompasses highly promising techniques with diverse applications including noise-reduced imaging, super-resolution microscopy as well as imaging and spectroscopy in challenging spectral ranges. These detection schemes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Felix Riexinger , Mirco Kutas , Björn Haase , Michael Bortz , Georg von Freymann

Linear optical networks are fundamental to the advancement of quantum technologies, including quantum computing, communication, and sensing. The accurate characterization of these networks, described by unitary matrices, is crucial to their…

Integrated single-photon detectors open new possibilities for monitoring inside quantum photonic circuits. We present a concept for the in-line measurement of spatially-encoded multi-photon quantum states, while keeping the transmitted ones…

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Computational imaging, especially non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lianfang Wang , Kuilin Qin , Xueying Liu , Huibin Chang , Yong Wang , Yuping Duan