Single-photon super-resolved spectroscopy from spatial-mode demultiplexing
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| author | Amato, Luigi Santamaria Sgobba, Fabrizio Pallotti, Deborah Lupo, Cosmo |
| author_facet | Amato, Luigi Santamaria Sgobba, Fabrizio Pallotti, Deborah Lupo, Cosmo |
| contents | We demonstrate spectroscopy of incoherent light with sub-diffraction resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment we analyze the spectrum of a pair of incoherent point-like sources whose separation is below the diffraction limit. The two sources mimic a planetary system, with a brighter source for the star and a dimmer one for the planet. Acquiring spectral information about the secondary source is hard because the two images have a substantial overlap. This limitation is solved by leveraging a structured measurement based on spatial-mode demultiplexing, where light is first sorted in its Hermite-Gaussian components in the transverse field, then measured by photon detection. This allows us to effectively decouple the photons coming from the two sources. An application is suggested to enhance exoplanets' atmosphere spectroscopy. A number of experiments of super-resolution imaging based on spatial demultiplexing have been conducted in the past few years, with promising results. Here, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, we extend this concept to the domain of spectroscopy. |
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| spellingShingle | Single-photon super-resolved spectroscopy from spatial-mode demultiplexing Amato, Luigi Santamaria Sgobba, Fabrizio Pallotti, Deborah Lupo, Cosmo Optics Quantum Physics We demonstrate spectroscopy of incoherent light with sub-diffraction resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment we analyze the spectrum of a pair of incoherent point-like sources whose separation is below the diffraction limit. The two sources mimic a planetary system, with a brighter source for the star and a dimmer one for the planet. Acquiring spectral information about the secondary source is hard because the two images have a substantial overlap. This limitation is solved by leveraging a structured measurement based on spatial-mode demultiplexing, where light is first sorted in its Hermite-Gaussian components in the transverse field, then measured by photon detection. This allows us to effectively decouple the photons coming from the two sources. An application is suggested to enhance exoplanets' atmosphere spectroscopy. A number of experiments of super-resolution imaging based on spatial demultiplexing have been conducted in the past few years, with promising results. Here, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, we extend this concept to the domain of spectroscopy. |
| title | Single-photon super-resolved spectroscopy from spatial-mode demultiplexing |
| topic | Optics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01190 |