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For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps

In this work a quantum imaging setup based on undetected squeezed photons is employed for metrological applications such as sensitive phase measurement and quantum imaging. In spite of the traditional quantum imaging with undetected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 S. Samimi , Z. Ghasemi , H. Mohammadi

Control of spatial quantum correlations in bi-photons is one of the fundamental principles of Quantum Imaging. Up to now, experiments have been restricted to controlling the state of a single bi-photon, by using linear optical elements. In…

We propose a nonlinear imaging scheme with undetected photons that overcomes the diffraction limit by transferring near-field information at one wavelength to far-field information of a correlated photon with a different wavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Elkin A. Santos , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Sina Saravi

One of the most surprising consequences of quantum mechanics is the entanglement of two or more distant particles. Although questions regarding fundamental issues of quantum theory still exist, quantum entanglement has started to play…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Yanhua Shih

Quantum imaging encompasses a broad range of methods that exploit the quantum properties of light to capture information about an object. One such approach involves using a two-photon quantum state, where only one photon interacts with the…

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

The classical bound on image resolution defined by the Rayleigh limit can be beaten by exploiting the properties of quantum mechanical entanglement. If entangled photons are used as signal states, the best possible resolution is instead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gilbert , M. Hamrick , Y. S. Weinstein , S. P. Pappas , A. Donadio

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

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…

We image with cameras entangled photon light transmitted through a random medium. Near-field and far-field spatial quantum correlations show that entangled photon pairs (bi-photons) generated by spontaneous optical parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Soro Gnatiessoro , Alexis Mosset , Eric Lantz , Fabrice Devaux

Quantum information technologies harness the intrinsic nature of quantum theory to beat the limitations of the classical methods for information processing and communication. Recently, the application of quantum features to metrology has…

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…

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Entangled biphoton sources exhibit nonclassical characteristics and have been applied to imaging techniques such as ghost imaging, quantum holography, and quantum optical coherence tomography. The development of wide-field quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Zhe He , Yide Zhang , Xin Tong , Lei Li , Lihong V. Wang

The measurement of the spatio-temporal correlations of light provides an interesting tool to overcome the traditional limitations of standard imaging, such as the strong trade-off between spatial resolution and depth of field. In…

Quantum correlation of two-photon states has been utilized to suppress the environmental noise in imaging down to the single-photon level. However, the size of the coherence area of photon pairs limits the applications of quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

In quantum illumination, various detection schemes have been proposed for harnessing remaining quantum correlations of the entanglement-based resource state. To this date, the only successful implementation in the microwave domain relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 F. Kronowetter , M. Würth , W. Utschick , R. Gross , K. G. Fedorov

Quantum imaging with undetected photons (QIUP) is a promising technique for non-invasive imaging, particularly at wavelengths where detectors are inefficient or unavailable. Recent studies have investigated the role of polarization in QIUP…

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