Quantum correlation enhanced super-resolution localization microscopy enabled by a fiber bundle camera

Abstract: Despite advances in low-light level detection, single-photon methods such as photon correlation have rarely been used in the context of imaging. The few demonstrations, for example of sub-diffraction limited imaging utilizing quantum statistics of photons, have remained in the realm of proof-of-principle demonstrations. This is primarily due to a combination of low values of fill factors, quantum efficiencies, frame rates and signal-to-noise characteristic of most available single-photon sensitive imaging detectors. Here we describe an imaging device based on a fiber bundle coupled to single-photon avalanche detectors, which combines a large fill factor, a high quantum efficiency, a low noise and scalable architecture. Our device enables localization based super-resolution microscopy in a non-sparse non-stationary scene, utilizing information on the number of active emitters, as gathered from non-classical photon statistics.