title: Superresolution microscopy with quantum emitters.
abstract: The optical diffraction limit imposes a bound on imaging resolution in classical optics. Over the last twenty years, many theoretical schemes have been presented for overcoming the diffraction barrier in optical imaging using quantum properties of light. Here, we demonstrate a quantum superresolution imaging method taking advantage of nonclassical light naturally produced in fluorescence microscopy due to photon antibunching, a fundamentally quantum phenomenon inhibiting simultaneous emission of multiple photons. Using a photon counting digital camera, we detect antibunching-induced second and third order intensity correlations and perform subdiffraction limited quantum imaging in a standard wide-field fluorescence microscope.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot, Israel , 76100.
authors.forename: Osip
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Levitt
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tenne
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itzhakov
authors.forename: Zvicka
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Deutsch
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oron
mesh_terms: D008027:Light; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017785:Photons