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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

Absorption imaging is the most common probing technique in experiments with ultracold atoms. The standard procedure involves the division of two frames acquired at successive exposures, one with the atomic absorption signal and one without.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-08 Gal Ness , Anastasiya Vainbaum , Constantine Shkedrov , Yanay Florshaim , Yoav Sagi

Far-field optical imaging inevitably involves low-pass spatial filtering, limiting the resolution. Moreover, conventional imaging suppresses high spatial frequency components close to the cutoff, making them invisible under noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Li Gong , Aonan Zhang , Madhura Ghosh Dastidar , Alexander Duplinskii , A. I. Lvovsky

We propose an interaction-free ghost imaging scheme based on a thermal light source. By utilizing the quantum Zeno-like effect, our approach significantly reduces the light dose absorbed by the sample, thereby effectively preventing sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Shun Li , Jing-Yang Xiao Feng , Xiu-Qing Yang , Xiaodong Zeng , Xi-Hua Yang , M. Al-Amri , Zheng-Hong Li

Quantum light generated in non-degenerate squeezers has many applications such as sub-shot-noise transmission measurements to maximise the information extracted by one photon or quantum illumination to increase the probability in target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefan Frick , Alex McMillan , John Rarity

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) quantifies the sample-specific optical-phase-delay enabling objective studies of optically-transparent specimens such as biological samples, but lacks chemical sensitivity limiting its application to…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Miu Tamamitsu , Keiichiro Toda , Ryoichi Horisaki , Takuro Ideguchi

We propose to realize microwave quantum illumination in weak coupling regime based on multimode optomechanical systems. In our proposal the multimode together with a frequency-mismatch process could reduce mechanical thermal noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Wen-Juan Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

We present a quantum thermometry method utilizing an optomechanical system composed of an optical field coupled to a mechanical resonator for measuring the unknown temperature of a thermal bath. To achieve this, we connect a thermal bath to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Asghar Ullah , Ali Pedram , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

When a laser beam passes through a rotating ground glass (RGG), the scattered light exhibits thermal statistics. This is extensively used in speckle imaging. This scattering process has not been addressed in photon picture and is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sheng-Wen Li , Fu Li , Tao Peng , G. S. Agarwal

The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorised (Science 321 (2008), Physics Review Letters 101 (2008)) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Thomas Gregory , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Miles J. Padgett

To measure low-temperature thermal fields, we have developed a single-element cooled thermal imaging camera for a spectral range of 8{\div}14 {\mu}m with an internal shutter for radiometric calibration. To improve the accuracy of measuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-30 E. Gordiyenko , Yu. Fomenko , G. Shustakova , G. Kovalov , S. Shevchenko

Visible images provide rich details and color information only under well-lighted conditions while infrared images effectively highlight thermal targets under challenging conditions such as low visibility and adverse weather.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Weihua Yang , Yicong Zhou

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

We apply the measurement reduction technique to optimally reconstruct an object image from multiplexed ghost images (GI) while taking into account both GI correlations and object image sparsity. We show that one can reconstruct an image in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky , A. S. Chirkin

Techniques to control the quantum state of light play a crucial role in a wide range of fields, from quantum information science to precision measurements. While for electrons in solid state materials complex quantum states can be created…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-18 Christian Kurtscheid , David Dung , Erik Busley , Frank Vewinger , Achim Rosch , Martin Weitz

In Quantum Illumination (QI), a signal beam initially entangled with an idler beam held at the receiver interrogates a target region bathed in thermal background light. The returned beam is measured jointly with the idler in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Ranjith Nair , Mile Gu

The resolution of optical imaging is limited by diffraction as well as detector noise. However, thermal imaging exhibits an additional unique phenomenon of ghosting which results in blurry and low-texture images. Here, we provide a detailed…

Ghost imaging is an unconventional optical imaging technique that reconstructs the shape of an object combining the measurement of two signals: one that interacted with the object, but without any spatial information, the other containing…

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has been widely applied in characterizing cells and tissues. Spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) is a highly sensitive QPI method, due to its partially coherent illumination and common path…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Yuheng Jiao , Yuchen R. He , Mikhail E. Kandel , Xiaojun Liu , Wenlong Lu , Gabriel Popescu

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata