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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 65: Nano-Optics and Biophotonics
Q 65.4: Talk
Friday, March 9, 2018, 11:15–11:30, K 0.023
Structured illumination quantum correlation microscopy — •Anton Classen1,2, Joachim von Zanthier1,2, Marlan O. Scully3,4,5, and Girish S. Agarwal3 — 1Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik and — 2Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052 Erlangen — 3Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA — 4Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA — 5Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA
We propose to use intensity correlation microscopy in combination with structured illumination to image quantum emitters that exhibit antibunching with a resolution reaching far beyond the Rayleigh limit. Combining intensity measurements and intensity autocorrelations of order m creates an effective PSF with the FWHM shrunk by a factor of √m [1,2]. Structured Illumination microscopy [3] on the other hand introduces a resolution improvement by a factor of 2 by the principle of moiré fringes. 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 + √m [4]. This yields the technique to be of interest for microscopy including imaging of biological samples. We present the underlying theory and simulations that demonstrate the increased resolution power, and point out requirements for an experimental implementation. [1] T. Dertinger et al., PNAS 106, 22287 (2009); [2] O. Schwartz et al., PRA 85, 033812 (2012); [3] M. G. Gustafsson, J. Micr. 198, 82 (2000); [4] A. Classen et al., Optica 4, 580 (2017)