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We present a concept to improve the spatial resolution of silicon pixel-detectors via the implementation of a sub-pixel cross-coupling, which introduces directional charge sharing between pixels. The charge-collection electrode is segmented…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-24 Sinuo Zhang , David-Leon Pohl , Tomasz Hemperek , Jochen Dingfelder

High-dimensional Hilbert spaces possess large information encoding and transmission capabilities. Characterizing exactly the real potential of high-dimensional entangled systems is a cornerstone of tomography and quantum imaging. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Laszlo Gyongyosi

Single-photon-avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are essential tools in biophotonics, optical ranging and sensing and quantum optics. However, their small number of pixels, low quantum efficiency and small fill factor have so far hindered their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Hugo Defienne , Jiuxuan Zhao , Edoardo Charbon , Daniele Faccio

N00N states -- maximally path-entangled states of N photons -- exhibit spatial interference patterns sharper than any classical interference pattern. This is known as super-resolution. However, even with perfectly efficient number-resolving…

We implement a double-pixel, compressive sensing camera to efficiently characterize, at high resolution, the spatially entangled fields produced by spontaneous parametric downconversion. This technique leverages sparsity in spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Gregory A. Howland , John C. Howell

The field of quantum information has been growing fast over the past decade. Optical quantum computation, based on the concepts of KLM and cluster states, has witnessed experimental realizations of larger and more complex systems in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Dikla Oren , Yoav Shechtman , Maor Mutzafi , Yonina C. Eldar , Mordechai Segev

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…

Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling (ImPASS) is a computational method for combining displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The general steps include measuring the relative displacements, up-sampling, aligning…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 James N. Caron

While experimental measurements of photon correlations have become routine in laboratories, theoretical access to these quantities for the light generated in complex nanophotonic devices remains a major challenge. Current methods are…

Plenoptic imaging is a novel optical technique for three-dimensional imaging in a single shot. It is enabled by the simultaneous measurement of both the location and the propagation direction of light in a given scene. In the standard…

Quantum techniques can be used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in optical imaging. Leveraging the latest advances in single photon avalanche diode array cameras and multi-photon detection techniques, here we introduce a super-sensitive…

Image superresolution methods process an input image sequence of a scene to obtain a still image with increased resolution. Classical approaches to this problem involve complex iterative minimization procedures, typically with high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Carlos Miravet , Francisco B. Rodriguez

Hyperspectral images often have hundreds of spectral bands of different wavelengths captured by aircraft or satellites that record land coverage. Identifying detailed classes of pixels becomes feasible due to the enhancement in spectral and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Raymond H. Chan , Ruoning Li

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has a wide range of applications from environmental monitoring to biotechnology. Current snapshot HSI techniques all require a trade-off between spatial and spectral resolution and are thus unable to achieve high…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

The deep learning technique was used to increase the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). However, most existing CNN-based SISR approaches primarily focus on establishing deeper or larger networks to extract more significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Huipeng Zheng , Lukman Hakim , Takio Kurita , Junichi Miyao

Hyperentanglement offers enhanced capacity for quantum information processing and communication protocols, especially in combination with robust high-dimensional degrees of freedom such as frequency-bin encoding. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Tommaso Faleo , Fabian Steinhauser , Gregor Weihs , Stefan Frick , Robert Keil

Hyperspectral imaging is a cutting-edge type of remote sensing used for mapping vegetation properties, rock minerals and other materials. A major drawback of hyperspectral imaging devices is their intrinsic low spatial resolution. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Leon Bungert , David A. Coomes , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Jennifer Rasch , Rafael Reisenhofer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Devices (EMCCD), owing to their high quantum efficiency and spatial resolution, are widely used to study typical quantum optical phenomena and related applications. Researchers have already developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Rounak Chatterjee , Vikas Bhat , Kiran Bajar , Sushil Mujumdar

One of the main limitations for the resolution of optical instruments is the size of the sensor's pixels. In this paper we introduce a new sub pixel resolution algorithm to enhance the resolution of images. This method is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-12 Siamak Khademi , Ahmad Darudi , Zahra Abbasi

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…