Improving resolution by the second-order correlation of light fields.
As important analysis tools, microscopes with high spatial resolution are indispensable for scientific research and clinical diagnosis. We report a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of a two-arm microscope scheme and show that, by measuring the second-order correlation of light fields, more details of an object can be obtained through recording more information about the initial illumination field. The effects arising from the transverse coherence length and the axial correlation depth of the illumination field are also discussed.
Zhang
Pengli
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Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Center for Cold Atom Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.
Gong
Wenlin
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Shen
Xia
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Huang
Dajie
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Han
Shensheng
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