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., 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Classen A., Ayyer K., Chapman HN., Roehlsberger R., von Zanthier J.:
  Incoherent Diffractive Imaging via Intensity Correlations of Hard X Rays
  In: Physical Review Letters 119 (2017)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.053401
• 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
• Schneider R., Mehringer T., Mercurio G., Wenthaus L., Classen A., Brenner G., Gorobtsov O., Benz A., Bhatti D., Bocklage L., Fischer B., Lazarev S., Obukhov Y., Schlage K., Skopintsev P., Wagner J., Waldmann F., Willing S., Zaluzhnyy I., Wurth W., Vartanyants IA., Rohlsberger R., von Zanthier J.:
  Quantum imaging with incoherently scattered light from a free-electron laser
  In: Nature Physics 14 (2018), S. 126-129
  ISSN: 1745-2473
  DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS4301
• 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