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Coherent Diffractive Imaging is a lensless technique that allows imaging of matter at a spatial resolution not limited by lens aberrations. This technique exploits the measured diffraction pattern of a coherent beam scattered by periodic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alessandro Colombo , Davide Emilio Galli , Liberato De Caro , Francesco Scattarella , Elvio Carlino

Optical absorption is a primary, label-defining contrast across biology, pathology, and materials science, yet three-dimensional quantitative absorption imaging has remained largely inaccessible to the brightfield microscopes used in…

Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) provides new opportunities for high resolution X-ray imaging with simultaneous amplitude and phase contrast. Extensions to CDI broaden the scope of the technique for use in a wide variety of experimental…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthew H. Seaberg , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Joshua J. Turner

Tissue biopsy evaluation in the clinic is in need of quantitative disease markers for diagnosis and, most importantly, prognosis. Among the new technologies, quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has demonstrated promise for histopathology…

Measuring the phase of light is fundamental to optical imaging, sensing, and signal processing applications. Conventional optical phase measurements rely on multipath configurations, bulky interferometric setups, and computationally…

Low-photon phase imaging is essential in applications where the signal is limited by short exposure times, faint targets, or the need to protect delicate samples. We address this challenge with Poisson Wavefront Imaging (PWI), an…

Quantum state tomography is an essential component of modern quantum technology. In application to continuous-variable harmonic-oscilator systems, such as the electromagnetic field, existing tomography methods typically reconstruct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Ekaterina Fedotova , Nikolai Kuznetsov , Egor Tiunov , A. E. Ulanov , A. I. Lvovsky

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

Metalenses, in order to compete with conventional bulk optics in commercial imaging systems, often require large field of view (FOV) and broadband operation simultaneously. However, strong chromatic and coma aberrations present in common…

Computational imaging modalities support a simplification of the active architectures required in an imaging system and these approaches have been validated across the electromagnetic spectrum. Recent implementations have utilized…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Thomas Fromenteze , Xiaojun Liu , Michael Boyarsky , Jonah Gollub , David R. Smith

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

The high-precision interferometric measurement of an unknown phase is the basis for metrology in many areas of science and technology. Quantum entanglement provides an increase in sensitivity, but present techniques have only surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 G. Y. Xiang , B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

The phase unwrapping plays a key role in obtaining a ground-truth phase of the wrapped phase. High-accurate unwrapped phases are demanded in various research fields such as optical holography, optical diffraction tomography, and magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-08 Alim Yolalmaz , Jeroen Kalkman

Quantum spectroscopy seeks to probe chemical systems using nonclassical light, which has properties that are qualitatively and quantitatively different than conventional light sources. One promising technique uses intensity-correlated twin…

Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Haoshuo Chen , Nicolas K. Fontaine , Joan M. Gene , Roland Ryf , David T. Neilson , Gregory Raybon

Spectroscopy has an illustrious history delivering serendipitous discoveries and providing a stringent testbed for new physical predictions, including applications from trace materials detection, to understanding the atmospheres of stars…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Gar-Wing Truong , James D. Anstie , Eric F. May , Thomas M. Stace , Andre N. Luiten

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is a promising imaging technique revealing most of the information from diffraction measurements. An ideal CDI should reconstruct complex-valued object from a single-shot far-field diffraction without any…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-26 An-Dong Xiong , Xiao-Peng Jin , Xv-Ri Yao , Qing Zhao

Quantum imaging employs the nonclassical correlation of photons to break through the noise limitation of classical imaging, realizing high sensitivity, high SNR imaging and multifunctional image processing. To enhance the flexibility and…

A new numerically and experimentally tested measurement method for the local electrical light field including its phase is presented. The method is based on Self Referencing Interferograms (SRI) such as shearing interferograms. The complex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-27 Martin Berz , Cordelia Berz

This article presents a thorough comparison of themain QPM techniques, focusing on their accuracy in terms of measurement precision and trueness. We focus on 8 techniques, namely digital holographic microscopy (DHM), cross-grating wavefront…