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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

We demonstrate experimentally quantum-inspired, spectral-domain intensity optical coherence tomography. We show that the technique allows for both axial resolution improvement and dispersion cancellation compared to conventional optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-16 Piotr Ryczkowski , Jari Turunen , Ari T. Friberg , Goëry Genty

We give a theoretical treatment of single atom detection in an compound, optical micro cavity. The cavity consists of a single mode semiconductor waveguide with a gap to allow atoms to interact with the optical field in the cavity. Optical…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution three-dimensional imaging technique that enables non-destructive measurements of surface and subsurface microstructures. Recent developments of OCT operating in the mid-infrared (MIR)…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ivan Zorin , Rong Su , Bettina Heise , Bernhard Lendl , Markus Brandstetter

In this chapter a general mathematical model of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented on the basis of the electromagnetic theory. OCT produces high resolution images of the inner structure of biological tissues. Images are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

We propose here a set of new methods to directly detect light mass dark matter through its scattering with abundant atmospheric muons or accelerator beams. Firstly, we plan to use the free cosmic-ray muons interacting with dark matter in a…

We observe the build-up of a matter wave interference pattern from single atom detection events in a double-slit experiment. The interference arises from two overlapping atom laser beams extracted from a Rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Bourdel , T. Donner , S. Ritter , A. Öttl , M. Köhl , T. Esslinger

Quantum theory predicts that two indistinguishable photons incident on a beam-splitter interferometer stick together as they exit the device (the pair emerges randomly from one port or the other). We use a special photon-number-resolving…

An integrated microscope that combines different optical techniques for simultaneous imaging is demonstrated. The microscope enables spectral-domain optical coherence microscopy based on optical backscatter, and multi-photon microscopy for…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Vinegoni , T. Ralston , W. Tan , W. Luo , D. L. Marks , S. A. Boppart

Wave-particle duality is a typical example of Bohr's complementarity principle that plays a significant role in quantum mechanics. Previous studies used the visibility of an interference pattern to quantify the wave property and used path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuan Yuan , Zhibo Hou , Yuan-Yuan Zhao , Han-Sen Zhong , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) is the non-classical counterpart of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) - a high-resolution 3D imaging technique based on white-light interferometry. Because Q-OCT uses a source of…

We propose and demonstrate an interferometric scheme for measuring the two-dimensional two-point cross-spectral density function in a two-shot manner. Our scheme comprises a Michelson interferometer with a converging lens in one of the arms…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Abhinandan Bhattacharjee , Shaurya Aarav , Anand K. Jha

We study the scattering of a matter-wave from an interacting system of bosons in an optical lattice, focusing on the strong-interaction regime. Analytical expressions for the many-body scattering cross section are derived from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Klaus Mayer , Alberto Rodriguez , Andreas Buchleitner

We study the possibility of detecting gravitational-waves with matter-wave interferometers, where atom beams are split, deflected and recombined totally by standing light waves. Our calculation shows that the phase shift is dominated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-02 Dongfeng Gao , Peng Ju , Baocheng Zhang , Mingsheng Zhan

Quantum states of light with multiple spatial modes are fundamental for quantum imaging and parallel quantum information processing. Thus, their characterization, which can be achieved through measurements of the coherence area, is an…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-09 Ashok Kumar , Hayden Nunley , Alberto M. Marino

Quantum interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become an indispensable tool for investigating mesoscopic features in soft matter and fluid mechanics. Its ability to provide high-resolution, non-invasive measurements in both spatial and temporal…

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

We demonstrate a different scheme to perform optical sectioning of a sample based on the concept of induced coherence [Zou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 318 (1991)]. This can be viewed as a different type of optical coherence tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Adam Vallés , Gerard Jiménez , Luis José Salazar-Serrano , Juan P. Torres

The modern definition of optical coherence highlights a frequency dependent function based on a matrix of spectra and cross-spectra. Due to general properties of matrices, such a function is invariant in changes of basis. In this article,…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-09 Bernard Lacaze