Beating the Abbe diffraction limit in confocal microscopy via nonclassical photon statistics.
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We experimentally demonstrate quantum enhanced resolution in confocal fluorescence microscopy exploiting the nonclassical photon statistics of single nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond. By developing a general model of superresolution based on the direct sampling of the kth-order autocorrelation function of the photoluminescence signal, we show the possibility to resolve, in principle, arbitrarily close emitting centers.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 113 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014