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We proposed a method to achieve superresolved optical imaging without beating the diffraction limit of light. This is achieved by magnifying the ideal optical image of the object through higher-order spatial frequency generation while…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-08 Zhixiang Li , Jianji Liu , Guoquan Zhang

Non-Gaussian states of light are essential for numerous quantum information protocols; thus, certifying non-Gaussianity is crucial. Full quantum state tomography, commonly used for this purpose, is a complicated procedure and yields…

Conventional wisdom dictates that to image the position of fluorescent atoms or molecules, one should stimulate as much emission and collect as many photons as possible. That is, in this classical case, it has always been assumed that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Guang Hao Low , Theodore J. Yoder , Isaac L. Chuang

Radio astronomical observations have very poor signal to noise ratios, unlike in other disciplines. On the other hand, it is possible to observe the object of interest for long time intervals as well as using a wider bandwidth.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-02 Sarod Yatawatta

Optical detection of nanoscale objects without relying on fluorescence is a current challenge due to their extremely weak interaction with light. Resonator-enhanced absorption microscopy is a novel tool to heavily boost the light-matter…

In the past years modern mathematical methods for image analysis have led to a revolution in many fields, from computer vision to scientific imaging. However, some recently developed image processing techniques successfully exploited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Marco Castellano , Daniele Ottaviani , Adriano Fontana , Emiliano Merlin , Stefano Pilo , Maurizio Falcone

It is a fundamental principle of quantum theory that an unknown state cannot be copied or, as a consequence, an unknown optical signal cannot be amplified deterministically and perfectly. Here we describe a protocol that provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Electra Eleftheriadou , Stephen M. Barnett , John Jeffers

Quantum enhancement of optical pulse timing accuracy is investigated in the Heisenberg picture. Effects of optical loss, group-velocity dispersion, and Kerr nonlinearity on the position and momentum of an optical pulse are studied via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-12 Mankei Tsang

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

In addition to the optical aberrations, the magnitude of the optical cells of detectors is one of the most important parameters, which restricts the resolution of detectors. Adaptive optic and the methods of reducing the aberrations are…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Khademi , A. Darudi , M. Shahsavari

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 propose to use multi-photon interferences from statistically independent light sources in combination with linear optical detection techniques to enhance the resolution in imaging. Experimental results with up to five independent thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Steffen Oppel , Thomas Büttner , Pieter Kok , Joachim von Zanthier

Several variations of the Heisenberg uncertainty inequality are derived on the basis of "noise-resolution duality" recently proposed by the authors. The same approach leads to a related inequality that provides an upper limit for the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 T. E. Gureyev , F. de Hoog , Ya. I. Nesterets , D. M. Paganin

Achieving the ultimate precisions for multiple parameters simultaneously is an outstanding challenge in quantum physics, because the optimal measurements for incompatible parameters cannot be performed jointly due to the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Han Wang , Guihua Zeng

In the quantum sensing context most of the efforts to design novel quantum techniques of sensing have been constrained to idealized, noise-free scenarios, in which effects of environmental disturbances could be neglected. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 C. Vitelli , N. Spagnolo , L. Toffoli , F. Sciarrino , F. De Martini

By exploiting the hyperentanglement, we propose a new concrete scheme to realize weak value amplification, which can be implemented by N hyperentangled photons along with coincidence detection. Our scheme can optimally increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Jing-Zheng Huang , Qin-Zheng Li , Chen Fang , Gui-Hua Zeng

The far-field resolution of optical imaging systems is restricted by the Abbe diffraction limit, a direct result of the wave nature of light. One successful technological approach to circumventing this limit is to reduce the effective size…

In a weak measurement with post-selection, a measurement value, called the weak value, can be amplified beyond the eigenvalues of the observable. However, there are some controversies whether the weak value amplification is practically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

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 show that weak measurement can be used to "amplify" optical nonlinearities at the single- photon level, such that the effect of one properly post-selected photon on a classical beam may be as large as that of many un-post-selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Amir Feizpour , Xingxing Xing , Aephraim M. Steinberg