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We present a new approach for image reconstruction and weak lensing measurements with interferometers. Based on the shapelet formalism presented in Refregier (2001), object images are decomposed into orthonormal Hermite basis functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier

Superresolution is a unique quantum feature generated by N00N states or phase-controlled coherent photons via projection measurements in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). Superresolution has no direct relation with supersensitivity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Byoung S. Ham

The ability to determine precisely the separation of two frequencies is fundamental to spectroscopy, yet the resolution limit poses a critical challenge: distinguishing two incoherent signals becomes impossible when their frequencies are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Qingyun Cao , Genko T. Genov , Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai , Yu Liu , Alex Retzker , Fedor Jelezko

Fourier transform spectroscopy based on incoherent light sources is a well-established tool in research fields from molecular spectroscopy and atmospheric monitoring to material science and biophysics. It provides broadband molecular…

We introduce DeepIR, a new thermal image processing framework that combines physically accurate sensor modeling with deep network-based image representation. Our key enabling observations are that the images captured by thermal sensors can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Vishwanath Saragadam , Akshat Dave , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

In some super-resolution techniques, adjacent points are illuminated at different times. Thereby, their locations and light intensities can be detected even if the images are very blurred due to diffraction. According to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Edward Y. Sheffield

We investigate the resolution for imaging two pointlike entangled sources by using the method of the moments and the spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE), where the pointlike entangled sources can be generated by injecting single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Huan Zhang , Wei Ye , Ying Xia , Zeyang Liao , Xue-hua Wang

We consider the problem of reconstructing one-dimensional point sources from their Fourier measurements in a bounded interval $[-\Omega, \Omega]$. This problem is known to be challenging in the regime where the spacing of the sources is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Zetao Fei , Hai Zhang

Recent advances in quantum optics have highlighted the critical role of spatial propagation in controlling the quantum coherence of light beams. However, the evolution of quantum coherence for light beams undergoing fundamental optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuetao Chen , Gaiqing Chen , Jin Wang , Qiang Ma , Shoukang Chang , Shaoyan Gao

Astronomers usually need the highest angular resolution possible, but the blurring effect of diffraction imposes a fundamental limit on the image quality from any single telescope. Interferometry allows light collected at widely-separated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John D. Monnier , Ronald J. Allen

We report on the implementation of ultracold atoms as a source in a state of the art atom gravimeter. We perform gravity measurements with 10 nm/s 2 statistical uncertainties in a so-far unexplored temperature range for such a high accuracy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 R Karcher , A Imanaliev , S. Merlet , Franck Pereira dos Santos

We show that distances of objects at cosmological distances can be measured directly using interferometry. Our approach to interferometric parallax comes from analysis of 4-point amplitude and intensity correlations that can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

Precision measurement has been an important research area in sensing and metrology. In classical physics, the Fisher information determines the maximum extractable information from statistically unknown signals, based on a joint probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Byoung S. Ham

An imaging refractrometer can be used to describe the properties of a high-energy density plasma by analyzing the transverse intensity distribution of a laser beam that has passed through the plasma. The output of the refractrometer can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 A. Rososhek , B. R. Kusse , W. M. Potter , N. J. Wilson , E. S. Lavine , D. A. Hammer

We propose an illumination strategy for interferometric imaging that allows for robust depth recovery from intensity-only measurements. For an array with colocated sources and receivers, we show that all the possible interferometric data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

This paper focuses on the fundamental aspects of super-resolution, particularly addressing the stability of super-resolution and the estimation of two-point resolution. Our first major contribution is the introduction of two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Ping Liu , Habib Ammari

Interferometry can be viewed generally as the measurement of a relative phase between two subsystems. I consider the problem of interfering a quantum resource state with a thermal bath, drawing a precise connection between the athermality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Benjamin Yadin

The spectral resolution of broadband Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy is limited by the maximum optical path length difference that can be scanned within a short time in an interferometer. However, alternatives to…

Controlling thermal emission is essential for various infrared spectroscopy applications. Metasurfaces can be utilized to control multiple degrees of freedom of thermal emission, enabling the compact thermal emission materials and devices.…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-14 Qiongqiong Chu , Fengyuan Zhang , Ye Zhang , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

We establish a simple method to assess the quantum Fisher information required for resolving two incoherent point sources with an imaging system. The resulting Cram\'er-Rao bound shows that the standard Rayleigh limit can be surpassed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Martin Paur , Bohumil Stoklasa , Zdenek Hradil , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Jaroslav Rehacek