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We investigate theoretically coherent detection implemented simultaneously on a set of mutually orthogonal spatial modes in the image plane as a method to characterize properties of a composite thermal source below the Rayleigh limit. A…

We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous estimation of the three parameters characterizing a pair of incoherent optical sources in the sub-Rayleigh regime, enabling super-resolved scene characterization. Using spatial-mode…

The resolution of optical imaging is classically limited by the width of the point-spread function, which in turn is determined by the Rayleigh length. Recently, spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) has been proposed as a method to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Cosmo Lupo

We propose a new recursive method for simultaneous estimation of both the pose and the shape of a three-dimensional extended object. The key idea of the presented method is to represent the shape of the object using spherical harmonics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gerhard Kurz , Florian Faion , Florian Pfaff , Antonio Zea , Uwe D. Hanebeck

We demonstrate the possibility of surpassing the quantum noise limit for simultaneous multi-axis spatial displacement measurements that have zero mean values. The requisite resources for these measurements are squeezed light beams with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Treps , N. Grosse , W. P. Bowen , M. T. L. Hsu , A. Maitre , C. Fabre , H. -A. Bachor , P. K. Lam

The development of mode-division multiplexing techniques is an important step to increase the information processing capacity. In this context, we design an efficient and robust mode-division (de)multiplexing integrated device based on the…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-04 G. Queraltó , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart

The development of superresolution techniques, i.e., allowing for efficient resolution below the Rayleigh limit, became one of the important branches in contemporary optics and metrology. Recent findings show that perfect spatial mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Konrad Schlichtholz

Beam alignment enables efficient, stable transmission and control of optical energy and information, which critically depend on precise monitoring and regulation of the three-dimensional (3D) relative positioning between fibers. This study…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Lin Xu , Li Pei , Jianshuai Wang , Zhouyi Hu , Tigang Ning

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…

Scattershot photon sources are known to have useful properties for optical quantum computing and boson sampling purposes, in particular for scaling to large numbers of photons. This paper investigates the application of these scattershot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Joshua J. Guanzon , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

We report a systematic methodology to obtain supermodes with equidistant effective index distribution and to excite arbitrary target supermodes with high precision. By employing a multi-well optical potential realized by a judiciously…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Kaile Chen , Qi Lu , Yuan Zhong , Jingchi Li , Yuru Li , Zhaohui Li , Chao Lu , Yikai Su , Lu Sun

An experimental scheme is introduced to measure multiple parameters that are encoded in the phase quadrature of a light beam. Using a modal description and a spectrally-resolved homodyne detection, it is shown that all of the information is…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Valérian Thiel , Jonathan Roslund , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps

In this paper, we propose a new method of Bayesian measurement for spectral deconvolution, which regresses spectral data into the sum of unimodal basis function such as Gaussian or Lorentzian functions. Bayesian measurement is a framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Kenji Nagata , Yoh-ichi Mototake , Rei Muraoka , Takehiko Sasaki , Masato Okada

We consider the problem of estimating the spatial separation between two mutually incoherent point light sources using the super-resolution imaging technique based on spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detectors. We show that in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Yink Loong Len , Chandan Datta , Michał Parniak , Konrad Banaszek

We analyze the problem of resolving two point-sources in the case of mutually coherent sources with arbitrary quantum statistics, mutual phase, relative and absolute intensity. We use a sensitivity measure based on the method of moments and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Ilya Karuseichyk , Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Mattia Walschaers , Nicolas Treps

Multimode optical fibers represent the ideal platform for transferring multidimensional light states. However, dispersion degrades the correlations between the light's degrees of freedom, thus limiting the effective transport of ultrashort…

The problem of estimating multiple loss parameters of an optical system using the most general ancilla-assisted parallel strategy is solved under energy constraints. An upper bound on the quantum Fisher information matrix is derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ranjith Nair

Beam displacement measurements are widely used in optical sensing and communications; however, their performance is affected by numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors including beam profile, propagation loss, and receiver architecture.…

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The application of quantum estimation theory to the problem of imaging two incoherent point sources has recently led to new insights and better measurements for incoherent imaging and spectroscopy. To establish a more general limit beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Mankei Tsang

A standard multimode optical fiber can be used as a general purpose spectrometer after calibrating the wavelength dependent speckle patterns produced by interference between the guided modes of the fiber. A transmission matrix was used to…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Sebastien M. Popoff , Hui Cao