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We consider passive imaging tasks involving discrimination between known candidate objects and investigate the best possible accuracy with which the correct object can be identified. We analytically compute quantum-limited error bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha

We analyze the fundamental resolution of incoherent optical point sources from the perspective of a quantum detection problem: deciding whether the optical field on the image plane is generated by one source or two weaker sources with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Xiao-Ming Lu , Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

Achieving resolution in the sub-Rayleigh regime (superresolution) is one of the rapidly developing topics in quantum optics and metrology. Recently, it was shown that perfect measurement based on spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Konrad Schlichtholz , Łukasz Rudnicki

We present a Fisher-information (FI) framework for photon-efficient fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) that treats temporal sampling as a controllable design variable under a fixed photon (dose) budget. Starting from a Poisson…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-05 J. Sumaya-Martinez , E. Torres-Garcia

It is known that waves generated by ambient noise sources and recorded by passive receivers can be used to image the reflectivities of an unknown medium. However, reconstructing the reflectivity of the medium from partial boundary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Zetao Fei , Josselin Garnier

Enhancing the precision of a measurement requires maximizing the information that can be gained about the quantity of interest from probing a system. For optical based measurements, such an enhancement can be achieved through two…

We establish the multiparameter quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for simultaneously estimating the centroid, the separation, and the relative intensities of two incoherent optical point sources using alinear imaging system. For equally bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Continuous quantum metrology holds promise for realizing high-precision sensing by harnessing information progressively carried away by the radiation quanta emitted into the environment. Despite recent progress, a comprehensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kazuki Yokomizo , Aashish A. Clerk , Yuto Ashida

We show that localisation microscopy of multiple weak, incoherent point sources with possibly different intensities in one spatial dimension is equivalent to estimating the amplitudes of a classical mixture of coherent states of a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-17 Evangelia Bisketzi , Dominic Branford , Animesh Datta

With the progress of optical detection technology, the classical diffraction limit raised a hundred years ago has been continuously broken through. In previous experiments within fluorescence sources, one of the techniques used is detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Xiao Liang , Yong-Sheng Zhang

We propose a framework called ReFInE to directly obtain integral image estimates from a very small number of spatially multiplexed measurements of the scene without iterative reconstruction of any auxiliary image, and demonstrate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Kuldeep Kulkarni , Pavan Turaga

We consider the problem of distributed estimation of a Gaussian vector with linear observation model. Each sensor makes a scalar noisy observation of the unknown vector, quantizes its observation, maps it to a digitally modulated symbol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Mojtaba Shirazi , Azadeh Vosoughi

We solve the general problem of determining, through imaging, the three-dimensional positions of $N$ weak incoherent point-like emitters in an arbitrary spatial configuration. We show that a structured measurement strategy in which a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok

A novel interferometric method - SLIVER (Super Localization by Image inVERsion interferometry) - is proposed for estimating the separation of two incoherent point sources with a mean squared error that does not deteriorate as the sources…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-16 Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

Two-photon absorption (TPA) is a nonlinear optical process with wide-ranging applications from spectroscopy to super-resolution imaging. Despite this, the precise measurement and characterisation of TPA parameters are challenging due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Athena Karsa , Ranjith Nair , Andy Chia , Kwang-Geol Lee , Changhyoup Lee

A recent paper [Z. Yu and S. Prasad, "Quantum limited superresolution of an incoherent source pair in three dimensions," arXiv:1805.09227v2 [quant-ph] (2018)] considered the problem of quantum limited estimation of the separation vector for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sudhakar Prasad , Zhixian Yu

Superresolution refers to the estimation of parameters of an image with an accuracy beyond standard classical techniques such as direct detection. In seminal work by Lu et al., a measurement to estimate the separation distance of two point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Hari Krovi

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

In contrast to the standard quantum state tomography, the direct tomography seeks the direct access to the complex values of the wave function at particular positions (i.e., the expansion coefficient in a fixed basis). Originally put…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Xuan-Hoai Thi Nguyen , Mahn-Soo Choi

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…