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Frontiers in Optics

Superresolution using parity sorting with partially coherent light

S. A. Wadood, Julia Allen, Yiyu Zhou, Jing Yang, Miguel Angel Alonso, Andrew N. Jordan, Robert W. Boyd, A. Nick Vamivakas

Published Jan 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate supperresolution for incoherent sources using parity sorting. Simulations are performed for superresolution using parity sorting of partially coherent sources. We show that anti-correlation increases the measurement sensitivity.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2019.fm3c.7

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The resolution of separation of two elementary signals forming a partially coherent superposition, defined by quantum Fisher information and normalized with respect to detection probabilities, is always limited by the resolution of incoherent mixtures. However, when the partially coherent superpositions are prepared in a controlled way, the precision can be enhanced by up to several orders of magnitude above this limit. Coherence also allows the sorting of information about various parameters into distinct channels as demonstrated by the parameter of separation linked with the anti-phase superposition and the centroid position linked with the in-phase superposition.
The resolution of separation of two elementary signals forming a partially coherent superposition, defined by Quantum Fisher Information and normalised with respect to detection probabilities, is always limited by the resolution of incoherent mixtures. However, when the partially coherent superpositions are prepared in a controlled way the precision can be enhanced by up to several orders of magnitude above this limit. Coherence also allows the sorting of information about various parameters into distinct channels as demonstrated by parameter of separation linked with the anti-phase superposition and the centroid position linked with the in-phase superposition.
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