Superresolution via Structured Illumination Quantum Correlation Microscopy (SIQCM)

Abstract

We propose to use intensity correlation microscopy in combination with structured illumination to image quantum emitters that exhibit antibunching with a spatial resolution reaching far beyond the Rayleigh limit. Combining intensity measurements and intensity auto correlations up to order $m$ creates an effective PSF with FWHM shrunk by the factor $\sqrt{m}$. Structured Illumination microscopy on the other hand introduces a resolution improvement of factor 2 by use of the principle of moiré fringes. Here, we show that for linear low-intensity excitation and linear optical detection the simultaneous use of both techniques leads to an in theory unlimited resolution power with the improvement scaling favorably as $m+\sqrt{m}$ in dependence of the correlation order $m$. Hence, yielding this technique to be of interest in microscopy for imaging a variety of samples including biological ones. We present the underlying theory and simulations demonstrating the highly increased spatial superresolution, and point out requirements for an experimental implementation.

7 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (3)

• Beating Abbe diffraction limit in confocal microscopy via non-classical photon statistics
• Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Photons
• Superresolving Imaging of Irregular Arrays of Thermal Light Sources using Multiphoton Interferences

Cited by in corpus (30)

• Imaging with quantum states of light
• Super-resolution enhancement by quantum image scanning microscopy
• Advances in quantum imaging
• Quantum imaging with sub-Poissonian light: challenges and perspectives in optical metrology
• Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays
• SOFISM: Super-resolution optical fluctuation image scanning microscopy
• Quantum imaging and metrology with undetected photons: a tutorial
• Experimental quantum imaging distillation with undetected light
• Light-field microscopy with correlated beams for extended volumetric imaging at the diffraction limit
• Resolution limit in quantum imaging with undetected photons using position correlations
• Accelerating quantum optics experiments with statistical learning
• Analysis of superresolution via 3D structured illumination intensity correlation microscopy
• Quantum noise radar: superresolution with quantum antennas by accessing spatiotemporal correlations
• Quantum Enhanced Imaging of Non-Uniform Refractive Profiles
• Quantum super-resolution microscopy by photon statistics and structured light
• Two-particle sub-wavelength Quantum Correlation Microscopy
• Beyond sub-Rayleigh imaging via high order correlation of speckle illumination
• Terahertz Quantum Imaging
• Quantum Limited Source Localization and Pair Superresolution under Finite Emission Bandwidth
• Light, the universe, and everything -- 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers
• Lost photon enhances superresolution
• Partial Coherence in modern optics: Emil Wolf's legacy in the 21st century
• Quantum super-resolution for imaging two pointlike entangled photon sources
• Analysis of intensity correlation enhanced plasmonic structured illumination microscopy
• Resolution of Quantum Imaging with Undetected Photons
• Electronic analogue of Fourier optics with mass-less Dirac fermions scattered by quantum dot lattice
• Superresolving second-order correlation imaging using synthesized colored noise speckles
• Measurement of two-point coherence functions of electromagnetic optical fields and applications of optical coherence
• Advances in Position-Momentum Entanglement: A Versatile Tool for Quantum Technologies
• Scanning quantum correlation microscopy with few emitters