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Any imaging device such as a microscope or telescope has a resolution limit, a minimum separation it can resolve between two objects or sources; this limit is typically defined by "Rayleigh's criterion", although in recent years there have…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-22 Weng Kian Tham , Hugo Ferretti , Aephraim M. Steinberg

Precision measurements are important across all fields of science. In particular, optical phase measurements can be used to measure distance, position, displacement, acceleration and optical path length. Quantum entanglement enables higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomohisa Nagata , Ryo Okamoto , Jeremy L. O'Brien , Keiji Sasaki , Shigeki Takeuchi

We investigate the localization of two incoherent point sources with arbitrary angular and axial separations in the paraxial approximation. By using quantum metrology techniques, we show that a simultaneous estimation of the two separations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Carmine Napoli , Samanta Piano , Richard Leach , Gerardo Adesso , Tommaso Tufarelli

Scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a promising technique for overcoming Abbe diffraction limit and substantially enhancing the spatial resolution in spectroscopic imaging. The s-SNOM works by exposing an atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Soheil Khajavi , Zahra Shaterzadeh-Yazdi , Ali Eghrari , Mohammad Neshat

Optical metrology has progressed beyond the Abbe-Rayleigh limit, unlocking (sub)atomic precision by leveraging nonlinear phenomena, statistical accumulation, and AI estimators trained on measurand variations. Here, we show that Fisher…

Coherence spectroscopy has been intensively studied over the last several decades for various applications in science and engineering. The Rayleigh criterion defines the resolution limit of an interferometer, where many-wave interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Byoung S. Ham

Multi-image super-resolution, which aims to fuse and restore a high-resolution image from multiple images at the same location, is crucial for utilizing satellite images. The satellite images are often occluded by atmospheric disturbances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Minji Lee

White-light interferometry is one of today's most precise tools for determining optical material properties. Achievable precision and accuracy are typically limited by systematic errors due to a high number of interdependent data fitting…

Optical sensing schemes that rely on two-photon interference provide a powerful platform for precision metrology, although they are inherently constrained by a trade-off between dynamic range and measurement precision. To overcome this…

We describe a novel method for blind, single-image spectral super-resolution. While conventional super-resolution aims to increase the spatial resolution of an input image, our goal is to spectrally enhance the input, i.e., generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Silvano Galliani , Charis Lanaras , Dimitrios Marmanis , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Currently, optical technology impacts most of our lives, from light used in scientific measurement to the fiber optic cables that makeup the backbone of the internet. However, as our current optical infrastructure grows, we discover that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Nathaniel Robert Miller

We study super-resolution imaging theoretically using a distant n-mode interferometer in the microwave regime for passive remote sensing, used e.g., for satellites like the "soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS)" mission to observe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Emre Köse , Daniel Braun

Quantum gates and simple quantum algorithms can be designed utilizing the diffraction phenomena of a photon within a multiplexed holographic element. The quantum eigenstates we use are the photon's linear momentum (LM) as measured by the…

We study supervised learning algorithms in which a quantum device is used to perform a computational subroutine - either for prediction via probability estimation, or to compute a kernel via estimation of quantum states overlap. We design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ulysse Chabaud , Damian Markham , Adel Sohbi

Super-resolution microscopy overcomes the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopy in spatial resolution. By providing novel spatial or spatio-temporal information on biological processes at nanometer resolution with molecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Tianjie Yang , Yaoru Luo , Wei Ji , Ge Yang

We propose a novel, to the best of our knowledge, approach to superresolution optical imaging by combining quantum optics and near-field optics. Our concept involves the utilization of single-photon quantum emitters to generate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Aziz Kolkiran

QuantEYE is designed to be the highest time-resolution instrument on ESO:s planned Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, devised to explore astrophysical variability on microsecond and nanosecond scales, down to the quantum-optical limit.…

Resolution enhancements are often desired in imaging applications where high-resolution sensor arrays are difficult to obtain. Many computational imaging methods have been proposed to encode high-resolution scene information on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Kevin Beale , Jianbo Chen , Kevin F. Kelly , Justin Romberg

Classical measurement strategies in many areas are approaching their maximum resolution and sensitivity levels, but these levels often still fall far short of the ultimate limits allowed by the laws of physics. To go further, strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 David S. Simon

Quantum target detection is an emerging application that utilizes entanglement to enhance the sensing of the presence of an object. Although several experimental demonstrations for certain situations have been reported recently, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Feixiang Xu , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Liang Xu , Tao Jiang , Man-Hong Yung , Lijian Zhang