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Polarization-based vision has gained increasing attention for providing richer physical cues beyond RGB images. While achieving single-shot capture is highly desirable for practical applications, existing Division-of-Focal-Plane (DoFP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Imari Sato

Polarization imaging is a technique that creates a pixel map of the polarization state in a scene. Although invisible to the human eye, polarization can assist various sensing and computer vision tasks. Existing polarization cameras use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Noa Kraicer , Shay Elmalem , Erez Yosef , Hani Barhum , Raja Giryes

The polarizing multi-photon quantum states tomography with non-unit quantum efficiency of detectors is considered. A new quantum tomography protocol is proposed. This protocol considers events of losing photons of multi-photon quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , N. A. Bogdanova , V. F. Lukichev

Exciton-polaritons are hybrid elementary excitations of light and matter that, thanks to their nonlinear properties, enable a plethora of physical phenomena ranging from room temperature condensation to superfluidity. While polaritons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Davide Nigro , Vincenzo D'Ambrosio , Daniele Sanvitto , Dario Gerace

It is demonstrated a two-photon interfering technique based on polarization-resolved measurements for the simultaneous estimation with the maximum sensitivity achievable in nature of multiple parameters associated with the polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 L. Maggio , D. Triggiani , P. Facchi , V. Tamma

We discuss the concept of polarization states of four-dimensional quantum systems based on frequency non-degenerate biphoton field. Several quantum tomography protocols were developed and implemented for measurement of an arbitrary state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yu. I. Bogdanov , E. V. Moreva , G. A. Maslennikov , R. F. Galeev , S. S. Straupe , S. P. Kulik

Novel imaging techniques utilizing nondegenerate, correlated photon pairs sparked intense interest during the last couple of years among scientists of the quantum optics community and beyond. It is a key property of such "ghost imaging" or…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Andras Buzas , Elmar K. Wolff , Mihaly G. Benedict , Pal Ormos , Andras Der

Hyperentanglement --- simultaneous entanglement between multiple degrees of freedom of two or more systems --- has been used to enhance quantum information tasks such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. P. Walborn , A. H. Pimentel , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

Imaging, detection and ranging of objects in the presence of significant background noise is a fundamental challenge in optical sensing. Overcoming the limitations imposed in conventional methods, quantum light sources show higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Hashir Kuniyil , Helin Ozel , Hasan Yılmaz , Kadir Durak

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

Partial polarization is the manifestation of the correlation between two mutually orthogonal transverse field components associated with a light beam. We show both theoretically and experimentally that the origin of this correlation can be…

We present a source of polarization entangled photon pairs based on spontaneous parametric downconversion engineered for frequency uncorrelated telecom photon generation. Our source provides photon pairs that display, simultaneously, the…

Imaging with quantum states of light promises advantages over classical approaches in terms of resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity. However, quantum detectors are particularly sensitive sources of classical noise that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W Fleischer , Daniele Faccio

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

Quantum descriptions of polarization show the rich degrees of freedom underlying classical light. While changes in polarization of light are well-described classically, a full quantum description of polarimetry, which characterizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Aaron Z. Goldberg

We perform experimental quantum polarimetry using a heralded single photon to analyze the optical activity of linearly polarized light traversing a chiral medium. Three kinds of estimators are considered to estimate the concentrations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Seung-Jin Yoon , Joong-Sung Lee , Carsten Rockstuhl , Changhyoup Lee , Kwang-Geol Lee

Polarimetric imaging has a wide range of applications for uncovering features invisible to human eyes and conventional imaging sensors. Compact, fast, cost-effective and accurate full-Stokes polarimetric imaging sensors are highly desirable…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-21 Jiawei Zuo , Jing Bai , Shinhyuk Choi , Ali Basiri , Xiahui Chen , Chao Wang , Yu Yao

The measurement of quantum states is one of the most important problems in quantum mechanics. We introduce a quantum state tomography technique in which the state of a qubit is reconstructed, while the qubit remains undetected. The key…