Research Areas - (5) Quantum-Enhanced Imaging

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Girish Agarwal 🔗
Texas A&M University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics & Astronomy | Agarwal Theoretical Quantum Optics Group @ TAMU
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Agarwal is a leading quantum-optics theorist whose recent work (with Yakovlev) established quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering spectroscopy and imaging, plus fundamental limits of quantum-enhanced sensing, entanglement-assisted spectroscopy and super-resolution. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work supplies the estimation-theory backbone for beating classical sensitivity limits.

Hugo Defienne 🔗
Sorbonne University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP) | Quantum Imaging Paris @ Sorbonne
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Defienne leads the Quantum Imaging Paris group at INSP, using spatial correlations and Hong-Ou-Mandel-type interference between entangled photon pairs to build microscopes that see through scattering media and correct optical aberrations without a spatial light modulator. His ERC-funded CORAMI project develops correlation-based adaptive optics as a universal add-on module for existing microscopes, targeting deeper (>1 mm), higher-contrast in-vivo imaging for neuroscientists, dermatologists, and ophthalmologists.

Alexander Lvovsky 🔗
University of Oxford 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics (Clarendon Laboratory) | Quantum and Optical Technology Group @ Oxford
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Lvovsky works broadly across quantum and optical technology, from foundational quantum optics (non-classical light states) to quantum-enhanced imaging; recent work combines spatial-mode demultiplexing with image scanning microscopy to push lateral resolution beyond the classical diffraction limit.

Vladislav Yakovlev 🔗
Texas A&M University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Biomedical Engineering | Advanced Spectroscopy Lab @ TAMU
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Yakovlev develops label-free biomedical imaging: Brillouin micro-spectroscopy of cell/tissue viscoelasticity, impulsive stimulated Brillouin scattering, SERS and coherent-Raman diagnostics, and quantum-enhanced (photon-number-resolving, sub-shot-noise) optical imaging in collaboration with Agarwal/Scully. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work provides the biomedical, quantum-enhanced-imaging bridge for spin-sensor bio-applications.

M. Suhail Zubairy 🔗
Texas A&M University 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics & Astronomy | Zubairy Quantum Optics Theory Group @ TAMU
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Zubairy is a quantum-optics theorist working on quantum imaging beyond the diffraction limit, quantum-coherence-based sensing, entanglement distribution and quantum information protocols. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work frames the theoretical limits that spin-ensemble sensors approach.