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While sensing in high temporal resolution is necessary for wide range of application, it is still limited nowadays due to cameras sampling rate. In this work we try to increase the temporal resolution beyond the Nyquist frequency, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Khen Cohen , Dan Raviv , David Mendlovic

We present a new method for real- and complex-valued image reconstruction from two intensity measurements made in the Fourier plane: the Fourier magnitude of the unknown image, and the intensity of the interference pattern arising from…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-06 Eliyahu Osherovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Irad Yavneh

High-resolution imagery is often hindered by limitations in sensor technology, atmospheric conditions, and costs. Such challenges occur in satellite remote sensing, but also with handheld cameras, such as our smartphones. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sander Riisøen Jyhne , Christian Igel , Morten Goodwin , Per-Arne Andersen , Serge Belongie , Nico Lang

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

We present a pursuit-like algorithm that we call the "superset method" for recovery of sparse vectors from consecutive Fourier measurements in the super-resolution regime. The algorithm has a subspace identification step that hinges on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Laurent Demanet , Deanna Needell , Nam Nguyen

We propose a technique capable of imaging a distinct physical object with sub-Rayleigh resolution in an ordinary far-field imaging setup using single-photon sources and linear optical tools only. We exemplify our method for the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 C. Thiel , T. Bastin , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

Frequency estimation from measurements corrupted by noise is a fundamental challenge across numerous engineering and scientific fields. Among the pivotal factors shaping the resolution capacity of any frequency estimation technique are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Sampath Kumar Dondapati , Omkar Nitsure , Satish Mulleti

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

We establish a simple method to assess the quantum Fisher information required for resolving two incoherent point sources with an imaging system. The resulting Cram\'er-Rao bound shows that the standard Rayleigh limit can be surpassed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Martin Paur , Bohumil Stoklasa , Zdenek Hradil , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Jaroslav Rehacek

Improving axial resolution is crucial for three-dimensional optical imaging systems. Here we present a scheme of axial superresolution for two incoherent point sources based on spatial mode demultiplexing. A radial mode sorter is used to…

The ultimate sensitivity of optical measurements is a key element of many recent works. Classically, it is mainly limited by the shot noise limit. However, a measurement setup that incorporates quantum mechanical principles can surpass the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 L. Cohen , D. Istrati , L. Dovrat , H. S. Eisenberg

We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous estimation of the three parameters characterizing a pair of incoherent optical sources in the sub-Rayleigh regime, enabling super-resolved scene characterization. Using spatial-mode…

In this paper we consider the inverse scattering problem for high-contrast targets. We mathematically analyze the experimentally-observed phenomenon of super-resolution in imaging the target shape. This is the first time that a mathematical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Habib Ammari , Yat Tin Chow , Jun Zou

This paper presents a method for reconstructing an acoustic source located in a two-layered medium from multi-frequency phased or phaseless far-field patterns measured on the upper hemisphere. The interface between the two media is assumed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yue Zhao

Based on diffraction theory and the propagation of the light, Fourier optics is a powerful tool allowing the estimation of a visible-range imaging system to transfer the spatial frequency components of an object. The analyses of the imaging…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Stephane Perrin , Paul Montgomery

Many super-resolution (SR) models are optimized for high performance only and therefore lack efficiency due to large model complexity. As large models are often not practical in real-world applications, we investigate and propose novel loss…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Dario Fuoli , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Interstellar scintillation can be used to probe transverse sizes of radio sources on scales inaccessible to the nominal resolution of any terrestrial telescope, e.g. $\lesssim 10^{-6}$ arc sec. Methodology is presented that exploits this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Cordes

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

A recently identified class of receivers which demultiplex an optical field into a set of orthogonal spatial modes prior to detection can surpass canonical diffraction limits on spatial resolution for simple incoherent imaging tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael R Grace , Zachary Dutton , Amit Ashok , Saikat Guha

We establish fundamental bounds on subwavelength resolution for the radar ranging problem, ``super radar''. Information theoretical metrics are applied to probe the resolution limits for the case of both direct electric field measurement…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-04 Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell