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Many atomic and molecular systems of fundamental interest possess resonance frequencies in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) where laser technology is limited and radiation sources have traditionally lacked long-term phase coherence. Recent…

We demonstrate two solid-state sources of indistinguishable single photons. High resolution laser spectroscopy and optical microscopy were combined at T = 1.4 K to identify individual molecules in two independent microscopes. The Stark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Lettow , V. Ahtee , R. Pfab , A. Renn , E. Ikonen , S. Gotzinger , V. Sandoghdar

We establish the multiparameter quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for simultaneously estimating the centroid, the separation, and the relative intensities of two incoherent optical point sources using alinear imaging system. For equally bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

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

The optical diffraction limit, formulated by Abbe 140 years ago, imposes a bound on imaging resolution in classical optics. Over the last twenty years, many theoretical schemes have been presented for overcoming the diffraction barrier in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 O. Schwartz , J. M. Levitt , R. Tenne , S. Itzhakov , Z. Deutsch , D. Oron

Performing homodyne detection at one port of squeezed-state light interferometer and then binarzing measurement data are important to achieve super-resolving and super-sensitive phase measurements. Here we propose a new data-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 J. H. Xu , A. X. Chen , W. Yang , G. R. Jin1

In this paper, we show that it is possible to overcome one of the fundamental limitations of super-resolution microscopy techniques: the necessity to be in an \emph{optically homogeneous} environment. Using recent modal approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Lorenzo Baldassari , Alice L. Vanel , Pierre Millien

Measuring low light absorption with combined uncertainty < 1 permille is crucial in a wide range of applications. Popular cavity ring-down spectroscopy can provide ultra-high precision, below 0.01 permille, but its accuracy is strongly…

Improvement of label-free far-field resolution of optical imaging is possible with prior knowledge of the object such as its sparsity or accumulated by a posteriori examination of a similar class of object1-4. We show that the sole…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Taeyong Chang , Giorgio Adamo , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Super-resolution imaging refers to imaging techniques that surpass the Rayleigh resolution limit. One standard way to achieve super-resolution is by structuring the phase of the field illuminating the object. Although super-resolution…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Nilakshi Senapati , Abhinandan Bhattacharjee , Kedar Khare , Anand K Jha

We demonstrate a two-dimensional time-domain spectroscopy method to extract amplitude and phase modifications of excited atomic states caused by the interaction with ultrashort laser pulses. The technique is based on Fourier analysis of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Blättermann , Christian Ott , Andreas Kaldun , Thomas Ding , Thomas Pfeifer

We propose a source of multimode squeezed light that can be used for the superresolving microscopy beyond the standard quantum limit. This source is an optical parametric amplifier with a properly chosen diaphragm on its output and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan V. Sokolov , Mikhail I. Kolobov

We experimentally map the transverse profile of diffraction-limited beams using photon-number-resolving detectors. We observe strong compression of diffracted beam profiles for high detected photon number. This effect leads to higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron Pearlman , Alexander Ling , Elizabeth Goldschmidt , Jingyun Fan , Alan Migdall

Much more image details can be resolved by improving the system's imaging resolution and enhancing the resolution beyond the system's Rayleigh diffraction limit is generally called super-resolution. By combining the sparse prior property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Spatial-mode projective measurements could achieve super-resolution in remote sensing and imaging, yet their performance is usually sensitive to the parameters of the target scenes. We propose and demonstrate a robust classifier of close-by…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-05 Ishan Darji , Santosh Kumar , Yu-Ping Huang

We show that data from homodyne-like detection based on photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors may be effectively exploited to reconstruct quantum states of light using the tomographic reconstruction techniques originally developed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Stefano Olivares , Alessia Allevi , Giovanni Caiazzo , Matteo G. A. Paris , Maria Bondani

We propose a Bayesian evidence-based inference framework based on relative belief ratios and apply it to discriminating between one and two incoherent optical point sources using spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE). Unlike the Helstrom…

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

An experimental scheme is introduced to measure multiple parameters that are encoded in the phase quadrature of a light beam. Using a modal description and a spectrally-resolved homodyne detection, it is shown that all of the information is…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Valérian Thiel , Jonathan Roslund , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps