Quantum-enhanced stimulated emission microscopy
| Autor: | Garces, Gil Triginer, Chrzanowski, Helen M., Daryanoosh, Shakib, Thiel, Valerian, Marchant, Anna L., Patel, Raj B., Humphreys, Peter C., Datta, Animesh, Walmsley, Ian A. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 024002 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0009681 |
| Popis: | Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques have emerged as a set of successful tools for biological imaging. Stimulated emission microscopy belongs to a small subset of pump-probe techniques which can image non-fluorescent samples without requiring fluorescent labelling. However, its sensitivity has been shown to be ultimately limited by the quantum fluctuations in the probe beam. We propose and experimentally implement sub-shot-noise limited stimulated emission microscopy by preparing the probe pulse in an intensity-squeezed state. This technique paves the way for imaging delicate biological samples that have no detectable fluorescence with sensitivity beyond standard quantum fluctuations. Comment: The following article has been submitted to Applied Physics Letters |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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