Beating the Abbe Diffraction Limit in Confocal Microscopy via Nonclassical Photon Statistics
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate quantum enhanced resolution in confocal fluorescence microscopy exploiting the nonclassical photon statistics of single nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond. By developing a general model of superresolution based on the direct sampling of the kth-order autocorrelation function of the photoluminescence signal, we show the possibility to resolve, in principle, arbitrarily close emitting centers.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.143602
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1406.3251
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvL.113n3602G
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.-p;
- 42.30.Va;
- 42.50.Ar;
- 42.50.St;
- Quantum optics;
- Image forming and processing;
- Photon statistics and coherence theory;
- Nonclassical interferometry subwavelength lithography;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143602 (2014)