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3D super-resolution fluorescence microscopy typically requires sophisticated setups, sample preparation, or long measurements. A notable exception, SOFI, only requires recording a sequence of frames and no hardware modifications whatsoever…

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The field of quantum information has been growing fast over the past decade. Optical quantum computation, based on the concepts of KLM and cluster states, has witnessed experimental realizations of larger and more complex systems in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Dikla Oren , Yoav Shechtman , Maor Mutzafi , Yonina C. Eldar , Mordechai Segev

We propose and demonstrate a photon-efficient optical classifier to overcome the Rayleigh limit in spatial resolution. It utilizes mode-selective sum frequency generation and single-pixel photon detection to resolve closely spaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 He Zhang , Santosh Kumar , Yu-Ping Huang

Much of our progress in understanding microscale biology has been powered by advances in microscopy. For instance, super-resolution microscopes allow the observation of biological structures at near-atomic-scale resolution, while…

We propose a method of spatial resolution enhancement in metrology (thermometry, magnetometry, pH estimation, and similar methods) with blinking fluorescent nanosensors by combining sensing with super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Alexander Mikhalychev , Alex Ulyanenkov

No imaging apparatus can produce perfect images: spatial resolution is limited by the Rayleigh diffraction bound that is a consequence of the imager's finite spatial extent. We show some N-photon strategies that permit resolution of details…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In the last years several proof of principle experiments have demonstrated the advantages of quantum technologies respect to classical schemes. The present challenge is to overpass the limits of proof of principle demonstrations to approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Nigam Samantaray , Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Alice Meda , Marco Genovese

We investigate analytically and numerically the role of quantum fluctuations in reconstruction of optical objects from diffraction-limited images. Taking as example of an input object two closely spaced Gaussian peaks we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladislav N. Beskrovnyy , Mikhail I. Kolobov

We propose a quantum-assisted reconstruction framework for high-resolution tomographic imaging that significantly reduces both qubit requirements and radiation exposure. Conventional quantum reconstruction methods require solving QUBO…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

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…

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

Superresolution fluorescence microscopy techniques beat the diffraction limit, enabling ultra-high resolution imaging in biological physics and nanoscience. In all cases that have been studied experimentally, the resolution scales inversely…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-10 Alexander Small

Quantum imaging has a potential of enhancing precision of the object reconstruction by using quantum correlations of the imaging field. This is especially important for imaging requiring low-intensity fields up to the level of few-photons.…

Resolving signals with closely spaced frequencies is central to applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. Recent results have shown that quantum sensing protocols can exhibit superresolution, the ability to discriminate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Joseph T. Iosue , Paraj Titum , Taohan Lin , Clare Lau , Leigh M. Norris

I explain what is, what is not, and what is only sort of superresolution microscopy. I discuss optical resolution, first in terms of diffraction theory, then in terms of linear systems theory, and finally in terms of techniques that use…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-02 John Bechhoefer

A practical quantum measurement method based on the quantum nature of anti-bunching photon emission has been developed to detect single particles without the restriction of the diffraction limit. By simultane- ously counting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Jin-Ming Cui , Fang-Wen Sun , Xiang-Dong Chen , Zhao-Jun Gong , Guang-Can Guo

We propose to use intensity correlation microscopy in combination with structured illumination to image quantum emitters that exhibit antibunching with a spatial resolution reaching far beyond the Rayleigh limit. Combining intensity…

We provide a quantitative analysis of super-resolution imaging techniques which exploit temporal fluctuations of luminosity of the sources in order to beat the Rayleigh limit. We define an operationally justified resolution gain figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

The quantum statistical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field establish a limit, known as the shot-noise limit, on the sensitivity of optical measurements performed with classical technologies. However, quantum technologies are not…