English
Related papers

Related papers: Single-photon super-resolved spectroscopy from spa…

200 papers

We present a parameter-decoupled superresolution framework for estimating sub-wavelength separations of passive two-point sources without requiring prior knowledge or control of the source. Our theoretical foundation circumvents the need to…

Multispectral imaging plays an important role in many applications from astronomical imaging, earth observation to biomedical imaging. However, the current technologies are complex with multiple alignment-sensitive components, predetermined…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Dongliang Tang , Cuong Dang

This work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud , Maxine Varughese

We experimentally demonstrate a universal, parameter-independent test for asymmetric source discrimination. The test allows us to discriminate faint sources well beyond the diffraction limit by exploiting spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Luigi Santamaria Amato , Danilo Triggiani , Cosmo Lupo

Historically, the resolution of optical imaging systems was dictated by diffraction, and the Rayleigh criterion was long considered an unsurpassable limit. In superresolution microscopy, this limit is overcome by manipulating the emission…

Sub-diffraction-limit resolution, or super-resolution, had been successfully demonstrated by recent theoretical and experimental studies for two-point sources with ideal equal-brightness and strict incoherenceness. Unfortunately, practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Abdelali Sajia , X. -F. Qian

This paper addresses the problem of imaging in the presence of diffraction-photons. Diffraction-photons arise from the low contrast ratio of DMDs ($\sim\,1000:1$), and very much degrade the quality of images captured by SPAD-based systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ibrahim Alsolami , Wolfgang Heidrich

In recent years, astronomical photometry has been revolutionised by space missions such as MOST, CoRoT and Kepler. However, despite this progress, high-quality spectroscopy is still required as well. Unfortunately, high-resolution spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. Van Reeth , A. Tkachenko , V. Tsymbal

I propose a superoscillation measurement method for subdiffraction incoherent optical sources, with potential applications in astronomy, remote sensing, fluorescence microscopy, and spectroscopy. The proposal, based on coherent optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Mankei Tsang

Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ugo Zanforlin , Cosmo Lupo , Peter W. R. Connolly , Pieter Kok , Gerald S. Buller , Zixin Huang

Observations of the Sun from the Earth are always limited by the presence of the atmosphere, which strongly disturbs the images. A solution to this problem is to place the telescopes in space satellites, which produce observations without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Quintero Noda , A. Asensio Ramos , D. Orozco Suárez , B. Ruiz Cobo

In some super-resolution techniques, adjacent points are illuminated at different times. Thereby, their locations and light intensities can be detected even if the images are very blurred due to diffraction. According to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Edward Y. Sheffield

In two-dimensional spectrographs, the optical distortions in the spatial and dispersion directions produce variations in the sub-pixel sampling of the background spectrum. Using knowledge of the camera distortions and the curvature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Daniel D. Kelson

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

A new method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. It is based on the principle that sampled data cannot be fully deconvolved without violating the sampling theorem. Thus, the sampled image should not be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Magain , F. Courbin , S. Sohy

We present spatial coherence measurements of partially coherent light in the far-field of incoherent sources with an experimental setup based on the Thompson-Wolf and Partanen-Turunen-Tervo experiments, to be performed in the context of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-05 Tiago E. C. Magalhães , José M. Rebordão , Alexandre Cabral

The resolution of optical imaging is classically limited by the width of the point-spread function, which in turn is determined by the Rayleigh length. Recently, spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) has been proposed as a method to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Cosmo Lupo

The Rayleigh's criterion infamously imposes a minimum separation between two incoherent sources for them to be distinguishable via classical methods. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of two-photon beats from the interference of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Salvatore Muratore , Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

This paper introduces the use of pseudo-filters that optimize the detection/extraction of sources on a background. We assume as a first approach that such sources are described by a spherical (central) profile and that the background is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. L. Sanz , D. Herranz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

The resolution of optical imaging devices is ultimately limited by the diffraction of light. To circumvent this limit, modern super-resolution microscopy techniques employ active interaction with the object by exploiting its optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 A. A. Pushkina , G. Maltese , J. I. Costa-Filho , P. Patel , A. I. Lvovsky