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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic tomography (PAT) are emerging non-invasive biological and medical imaging techniques. It is a recent trend in experimental science to design experiments that perform PAT and OCT imaging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

When two indistinguishable single photons are fed into the two input ports of a beam splitter, the photons will coalesce and leave together from the same output port. This is a quantum interference effect, which occurs because the two…

Acousto-optical coherence tomography (AOCT) consists in using random phase jumps on ultrasound and light to achieve a millimeter resolution when imaging thick scattering media. We combined this technique with heterodyne off-axis digital…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread success as an in vivo clinical diagnostic 3D imaging modality, impacting areas including ophthalmology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Despite its many advantages, such as high…

There is renewed interest in using the coherence between beams generated in separate down-converter sources for new applications in imaging, spectroscopy, microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT). These schemes make use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Arturo Rojas-Santana , Gerard J. Machado , Dorilian Lopez-Mago , Juan P. Torres

We report a proof-of-concept demonstration of a tunable infrared (IR) optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique with detection of only visible range photons. Our method is based on the nonclassical interference of frequency correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Anna V. Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

The Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful interferometric imaging technique widely used in medical fields such as ophthalmology, cardiology and dermatology, for which footprint and cost are becoming increasingly important. Here…

The quantum interference between a coherent state and a single photon is an important tool in continuous variable optical quantum technologies to characterize and engineer non-Gaussian quantum states. Semiconductor quantum dots, which have…

Imaging based on the induced coherence effect makes use of photon pairs to obtain information of an object without detecting the light that probes it. While one photon illuminates the object, only its partner is detected, so no measurement…

We show that quantum frequency conversion (QFC) can overcome the spectral distinguishability common to inhomogeneously broadened solid-state quantum emitters. QFC is implemented by combining single photons from an InAs quantum dot (QD) at…

Optical tomographic cross-sectional images of biological samples were made possible by interferometric imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Owing to its unprecedented view of the sample, OCT has become a gold…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Pedro Mecê , Elena Gofas-Salas , Michel Paques , Kate Grieve , Serge Meimon

This short textbook was written for someone who newly start studying, doing research, or development about optical coherence tomography (OCT) or using OCT. The first chapter summarizes the concept and the history of OCT. In the second…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Yoshiaki Yasuno

This paper reports on advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) for application in dermatology. Full-field OCT is a particular approach of OCT based on white-light interference microscopy. FF-OCT produces en face tomographic images by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Olivier Levecq , Arthur Davis , Hicham Azimani , David Siret , Jean-Luc Perrot , Arnaud Dubois

We present one- and two-photon diffraction and interference experiments involving parametric down-converted photon pairs. By controlling the divergence of the pump beam in parametric down-conversion, the diffraction-interference pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryosuke Shimizu , Keiichi Edamatsu , Tadashi Itoh

We study the photon blockade effect in a coupled cavity system, which is formed by a linear cavity coupled to a Kerr-type nonlinear cavity via a photon-hopping interaction. We explain the physical phenomenon from the viewpoint of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Fen Zou , Deng-Gao Lai , Jie-Qiao Liao

We survey the inclusion of interferometric elements in nonlinear spectroscopy performed with quantum light. Controlled interference of electromagnetic fields coupled to matter can induce constructive or destructive contributions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Shahaf Asban , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

Quantum frequency conversion (QFC), a critical technology in photonic quantum information science, requires that the quantum characteristics of the frequency-converted photon must be the same as the input photon except for the color. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Chin-Yao Cheng , Jia-Juan Lee , Zi-Yu Liu , Jiun-Shiuan Shiu , Yong-Fan Chen

Quantum interference and quantum correlation, as two main features of quantum optics, play an essential role in quantum information applications, such as multi-particle quantum walk and boson sampling. While many experimental demonstrations…

The detection of objects in the presence of significant background noise is a problem of fundamental interest in sensing. In this work, we theoretically analyze a prototype target detection protocol, the quantum temporal correlation (QTC)…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-16 Han Liu , Bhashyam Balaji , Amr S. Helmy

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…