Superresolution Microscopy with Quantum Emitters

The optical diffraction limit imposes a bound on imaging resolution in classical optics. Over the last twenty years, many theoretical schemes have been presented for overcoming the diffraction barrier in optical imaging using quantum properties of light. Here, we demonstrate a quantum superresolutio...

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Published in:Nano letters 2013-12, Vol.13 (12), p.5832-5836
Main Authors: Schwartz, Osip, Levitt, Jonathan M, Tenne, Ron, Itzhakov, Stella, Deutsch, Zvicka, Oron, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Counting
Diffraction
Exact sciences and technology
Fluorescence
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Imaging
Light
Microscopy
Microscopy - methods
Nanotechnology
Optical properties
Optics
Optics and Photonics
Photons
Physics
Quantum optics
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Summary:The optical diffraction limit imposes a bound on imaging resolution in classical optics. Over the last twenty years, many theoretical schemes have been presented for overcoming the diffraction barrier in optical imaging using quantum properties of light. Here, we demonstrate a quantum superresolution imaging method taking advantage of nonclassical light naturally produced in fluorescence microscopy due to photon antibunching, a fundamentally quantum phenomenon inhibiting simultaneous emission of multiple photons. Using a photon counting digital camera, we detect antibunching-induced second and third order intensity correlations and perform subdiffraction limited quantum imaging in a standard wide-field fluorescence microscope.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/nl402552m