Quantum imaging

Abstract

We use multi-photon interferences from statistically independent classical or non-classical light sources in combination with linear or non-linear optical detection techniques to reconstruct, i.e., image, arbitrary source geometries with subclassical resolution. Our far-field reconstruction algorithms have opened the field of Incoherent Diffraction Imaging (IDI) which – if applied to x-ray structure determination – leads to the highest resolution obtained in radiation-based microscopy of incoherent scatterers.

Publications

• Classen A., Waldmann F., Giebel S., Schneider R., Bhatti D., Mehringer T., von Zanthier J.:
  Superresolving Imaging of Arbitrary One-Dimensional Arrays of Thermal Light Sources Using Multiphoton Interference
  In: Physical Review Letters 117 (2016)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.253601
• Pearce ME., Mehringer T., von Zanthier J., Kok P.:
  Precision estimation of source dimensions from higher-order intensity correlations
  In: Physical Review A 92 (2015)
  ISSN: 1050-2947
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.043831
• Oppel S., Büttner T., Kok P., von Zanthier J.:
  Superresolving Multiphoton Interferences with Independent Light Sources
  In: Physical Review Letters 109 (2012)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.233603
• Thiel C., Bastin T., von Zanthier J., Agarwal GS.:
  Sub-Rayleigh quantum imaging using single-photon sources
  In: Physical Review A 80 (2009)
  ISSN: 1050-2947
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.013820
• Thiel C., Bastin T., Martin J., Solano E., von Zanthier J., Agarwal GS.:
  Quantum imaging with incoherent photons
  In: Physical Review Letters 99 (2007)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.133603
• Classen A., von Zanthier J., Scully MO., Agarwal GS.:
  Superresolution via structured illumination quantum correlation microscopy
  In: Optica 4 (2017), S. 580-587
  ISSN: 2334-2536
  DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000580