Mid-infrared quantum scanning microscopy via visible light beyond spatial correlations
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| author | León-Torres, Josué R. Dosan, Vasile-Laurentiu Ćurčić, Marija M. Lagarrigue, Alek Setzpfandt, Frank Gräfe, Markus Gili, Valerio Flavio |
| author_facet | León-Torres, Josué R. Dosan, Vasile-Laurentiu Ćurčić, Marija M. Lagarrigue, Alek Setzpfandt, Frank Gräfe, Markus Gili, Valerio Flavio |
| contents | The mid-infrared (MIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum spans from 2- to 25-$μ\mathrm{m}$, serving as a valuable tool for accessing rich chemical information. Functional groups, lipids, and other complex molecules can be analyzed by optical absorption measurements due to their vibrational modes in the MIR spectral region. Over the past few decades, this field has faced challenges due to difficulties in generating MIR light and the limited maturity of detection systems in this spectral range. Quantum imaging with undetected light (QIUL) provides a spectrally tuneable photon-pair source, in which the sample can be illuminated with MIR light while visible (VIS) light is employed for detection and image reconstruction, overcoming the detection limitations and benefiting from the rich chemical information of the MIR spectral region. All previous QIUL implementations are based on spatial correlations, which are never perfect and thus hindered the imaging performance. In this work, we implement a raster-scanning QIUL method that is independent of the strength of the spatial correlations and achieves a spatial resolution beyond the limitations of these correlations. |
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| spellingShingle | Mid-infrared quantum scanning microscopy via visible light beyond spatial correlations León-Torres, Josué R. Dosan, Vasile-Laurentiu Ćurčić, Marija M. Lagarrigue, Alek Setzpfandt, Frank Gräfe, Markus Gili, Valerio Flavio Optics The mid-infrared (MIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum spans from 2- to 25-$μ\mathrm{m}$, serving as a valuable tool for accessing rich chemical information. Functional groups, lipids, and other complex molecules can be analyzed by optical absorption measurements due to their vibrational modes in the MIR spectral region. Over the past few decades, this field has faced challenges due to difficulties in generating MIR light and the limited maturity of detection systems in this spectral range. Quantum imaging with undetected light (QIUL) provides a spectrally tuneable photon-pair source, in which the sample can be illuminated with MIR light while visible (VIS) light is employed for detection and image reconstruction, overcoming the detection limitations and benefiting from the rich chemical information of the MIR spectral region. All previous QIUL implementations are based on spatial correlations, which are never perfect and thus hindered the imaging performance. In this work, we implement a raster-scanning QIUL method that is independent of the strength of the spatial correlations and achieves a spatial resolution beyond the limitations of these correlations. |
| title | Mid-infrared quantum scanning microscopy via visible light beyond spatial correlations |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04490 |