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Spectral measurements in the infrared (IR) optical range provide unique fingerprints of materials which are useful for material analysis, environmental sensing, and health diagnostics. Current IR spectroscopy techniques require the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Anna V. Paterova , Sergei P. Kulik , Leonid A. Krivitsky

We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear crystals, by sharing a coherent pump and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Mayukh Lahiri , Sven Ramelow , Radek Lapkiewicz , William Plick

Quantum imaging with undetected light has recently emerged as a technique in which quantum correlations and nonlinear interferometry are combined to decouple illumination and detection paths. This approach has been more recently extended…

We report a proof-of-concept demonstration of a tunable infrared (IR) optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique with detection of only visible range photons. Our method is based on the nonclassical interference of frequency correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Anna V. Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Quantum interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

Using the complementary wave- and particle-like natures of photons, it is possible to make ``interaction-free'' measurements where the presence of an object can be determined with no photons being absorbed. We investigated several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew G. White , Jay R. Mitchell , Olaf Nairz , Paul G. Kwiat

We propose a novel quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is obtained by scanning the photon that did not interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shahaf Asban , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

We show that how a recent experiment of quantum imaging with undetected photons can basically be described as a (partial) ancilla-assisted process tomography. We propose a simplified quantum circuit version of this scenario, which also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 M. Ghalaii , M. Afsary , S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani

Sensing with undetected photons has enabled new, unconventional approaches to Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Leveraging properties of non-degenerated entangled photon pairs, mid-IR information can be accessed in the near-IR…

Quantum - or classically correlated - light can be employed in various ways to improve resolution and measurement sensitivity. In an "interaction-free" measurement, a single photon can be used to reveal the presence of an object placed…

Quantum imaging with undetected photons is a recently introduced technique that goes significantly beyond what was previously possible. In this technique, images are formed without detecting the light that interacted with the object that is…

Infrared (IR) images are widely used in many fields such as medical imaging, object tracking, astronomy and military purposes for securing borders. Infrared images can be captured day or night based on the type of capturing device. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Rania Gaber , AbdElmgied Ali , Kareem Ahmed

We present a quantum interference phenomenon in which four-photon quantum states generated by two independent sources are used to create a two-photon interference pattern without detecting two of the photons. Contrary to the common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Chandler Tarrant , Mayukh Lahiri

We demonstrate a new scheme of infrared spectroscopy with visible light sources and detectors. The technique relies on the nonlinear interference of correlated photons, produced via spontaneous parametric down conversion in a nonlinear…

Quantum imaging with undetected photons (QIUP) is a unique method of image acquisition where the photons illuminating the object are not detected. This method relies on quantum interference and spatial correlations between the twin photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Balakrishnan Viswanathan , Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Mayukh Lahiri

Quantum sensing with undetected photons is a technique where photons of one wavelength probe a sample, but information is extracted by measuring photons of another wavelength that never interacts with the sample. This has seen significant…

Quantum Entanglement is widely regarded as one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and quantum information science. Although, photonic entanglement is routinely studied in many experiments nowadays, its signature has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Robert Fickler , Mario Krenn , Radek Lapkiewicz , Sven Ramelow , Anton Zeilinger

Quantum imaging with undetected light (QIUL) can retrieve amplitude and phase information of an object by exploiting the quantum correlations of photon-pairs generated through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), where the…

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

A transparent polarisation sensitive phase pattern makes a polarisation dependent transformation of quantum state of photons without absorbing them. Such an invisible pattern can be imaged with quantum entangled photons by making joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Manpreet Kaur , Mandip Singh