TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical quantum super-resolution imaging and hypothesis testing
AU - Zanforlin, Ugo
AU - Lupo, Cosmo
AU - Connolly, Peter W. R.
AU - Kok, Pieter
AU - Buller, Gerald S.
AU - Huang, Zixin
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PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially at lengths within the diffraction limit. Moreover, detecting the presence of multiple sources of different brightness is an even more severe challenge. We experimentally demonstrate two tasks for super-resolution imaging based on hypothesis testing and quantum metrology techniques. We can significantly reduce the error probability for detecting a weak secondary source, even for small separations. We reduce the experimental complexity to a simple interferometer: we show (1) our set-up is optimal for the state discrimination task, and (2) if the two sources are equally bright, then this measurement can super-resolve their angular separation. Using a collection baseline of 5.3 mm, we resolve the angular separation of two sources placed 15 μm apart at a distance of 1.0 m with a 1.7% accuracy - an almost 3-orders-of-magnitude improvement over shot-noise limited direct imaging.
AB - Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially at lengths within the diffraction limit. Moreover, detecting the presence of multiple sources of different brightness is an even more severe challenge. We experimentally demonstrate two tasks for super-resolution imaging based on hypothesis testing and quantum metrology techniques. We can significantly reduce the error probability for detecting a weak secondary source, even for small separations. We reduce the experimental complexity to a simple interferometer: we show (1) our set-up is optimal for the state discrimination task, and (2) if the two sources are equally bright, then this measurement can super-resolve their angular separation. Using a collection baseline of 5.3 mm, we resolve the angular separation of two sources placed 15 μm apart at a distance of 1.0 m with a 1.7% accuracy - an almost 3-orders-of-magnitude improvement over shot-noise limited direct imaging.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-32977-8
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-32977-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 36100599
AN - SCOPUS:85137839029
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 5373
ER -