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Quantum entanglement between paired photons is the foundation of optical quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networks. Traditionally, quantum information science has focused on the particle nature of photons at the microscopic…

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Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

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We present spatial coherence measurements of partially coherent light in the far-field of incoherent sources with an experimental setup based on the Thompson-Wolf and Partanen-Turunen-Tervo experiments, to be performed in the context of a…

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Partially coherent quantum-entangled beams combine quantum entanglement with partial coherence, allowing them to maintain quantum characteristics while being more resistant to distortions caused by random media during propagation. In this…

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A new phase-coherent technique for the calibration of polarimetric data is presented. Similar to the one-dimensional form of convolution, data are multiplied by the response function in the frequency domain. Therefore, the system response…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. van Straten

Wavefront sensing is a set of techniques providing efficient means to ascertain the shape of an optical wavefront or its deviation from an ideal reference. Due to its wide dynamical range and high optical efficiency, the Shack-Hartmann is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 B. Stoklasa , L. Motka , J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Quantum interferometry methods exploit quantum resources, such as photonic entanglement, to enhance phase estimation beyond classical limits. Nonlinear optics has served as a workhorse for the generation of entangled photon pairs, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Romain Dalidet , Anthony Martin , Grégory Sauder , Laurent Labonté , Sébastien Tanzilli

Many signal processing and machine learning applications are built from evaluating a kernel on pairs of signals, e.g. to assess the similarity of an incoming query to a database of known signals. This nonlinear evaluation can be simplified…

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We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of recovering an inhomogeneous medium by the associated acoustic wave measurement. We prove that under certain assumptions, a single far-field pattern determines the values of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Emilia Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

We propose a technique to obtain sub-wavelength resolution in quantum imaging with potentially 100% contrast using incoherent light. Our method requires neither path-entangled number states nor multi-photon absorption. The scheme makes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Thiel , T. Bastin , J. Martin , E. Solano , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

We report experimental results of parallel measurement of spectral components of the light. The temporal fluctuations of an optical field mixed with a separate reference are recorded with a high throughput complementary metal oxide…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Atlan , Michel Gross

We outline the potential gains of quantum correlated imaging and compare it to classical correlated imaging. As shown earlier by A. Gatti, E. Bambilla, M. Bache, and L. A. Lugiato, ArXive:quant-ph/0405056, classical correlated imaging can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bogdanski , G. Bjork , A. Karlsson

Animation data is often obtained through optical motion capture systems, which utilize a multitude of cameras to establish the position of optical markers. However, system errors or occlusions can result in missing markers, the manual…

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The physical aspects of partially coherent radiation interacting with deterministic non-Hermitian periodic materials remain largely unexplored in the statistical optics literature. Here, we consider the scattering of partially coherent…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Paulo A. Brandão , S. B. Cavalcanti

Images taken by space telescopes typically have a superb spatial resolution, but a relatively poor sampling rate due to the finite CCD pixel size. Beyond the Nyquist limit, it becomes uncertain how much the pixelation effect may affect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-06 Zhi Shen , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Haoran Wang , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Xiaobo Li , Zhang Ban , Dan Yue

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

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We examine the level of agreement between low redshift weak lensing data and the CMB using measurements from the CFHTLenS and Planck+WMAP polarization. We perform an independent analysis of the CFHTLenS six bin tomography results of Heymans…

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We report on progress concerning the partial wave analysis of higher correlation functions in conformal quantum field theory.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christoph Neumann , Karl-Henning Rehren , Lena Wallenhorst

I propose a superoscillation measurement method for subdiffraction incoherent optical sources, with potential applications in astronomy, remote sensing, fluorescence microscopy, and spectroscopy. The proposal, based on coherent optical…

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