Entangled-photon coincidence fluorescence imaging.
We describe fluorescence imaging using the second-order correlation of entangled photon pairs. The proposed method is based on the principle that one photon of the pair carries information on where the other photon has been absorbed and has produced fluorescence in a sample. Because fluorescent molecules serve as "detectors" breaking the entanglement, multiply-scattered fluorescence photons within the sample do not cause image blur. We discuss experimental implementations.
Scarcelli
Giuliano
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Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Blossom St., Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Yun
Seok H
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D000465:Algorithms; D004867:Equipment Design; D005453:Fluorescence; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017785:Photons; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors