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Beating Abbe diffraction limit in confocal microscopy via non-classical photon statistics

2014/06/27 by D. Gatto Monticone, K. Katamadze, P. Traina +7 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.113.143602

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143602 (2014)

arxiv created 2014/06/27 · arxiv updated 2014/10/03

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate quantum enhanced resolution in confocal fluorescence microscopy exploiting the non-classical photon statistics of single nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond. By developing a general model of super-resolution based on the direct sampling of the kth-order autocorrelation function of the photoluminescence signal, we show the possibility, in some cases, to resolve in principle arbitrarily close emitting centers.

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