Conservative classical and quantum resolution limits for incoherent imaging
arXiv:1605.03799 · doi:10.1080/09500340.2017.1377306
Abstract
I propose classical and quantum limits to the statistical resolution of two incoherent optical point sources from the perspective of minimax parameter estimation. Unlike earlier results based on the Cramér-Rao bound, the limits proposed here, based on the worst-case error criterion and a Bayesian version of the Cramér-Rao bound, are valid for any biased or unbiased estimator and obey photon-number scalings that are consistent with the behaviors of actual estimators. These results prove that, from the minimax perspective, the spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement scheme recently proposed by Tsang, Nair, and Lu [Phys. Rev. X 6, 031033 (2016)] remains superior to direct imaging for sufficiently high photon numbers.
12 pages, 2 figures. v2: focused on imaging, cleaned up the math, added new analytic and numerical results. v3: restructured and submitted
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