Variations on the theme of quantum optical coherence tomography: a review

We discuss the development of quantum optical coherence tomography (Q-OCT), an imaging modality with a number of potential applications. Although Q-OCT is not expected to replace its eminently successful classical cousin, optical coherence tomography (OCT), it does offer some advantages as a biological imaging paradigm. These include greater axial resolution and higher signal-to-background ratio, immunity to dispersion that can lead to deeper subsurface penetration, and nondestructive probing of light-sensitive samples. Q-OCT also serves as a quantum template for constructing classical systems that mimic its salutary properties.

[1]  Aephraim M. Steinberg,et al.  Dispersion cancellation and high-resolution time measurements in a fourth-order optical interferometer. , 1992, Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

[2]  D. Davies,et al.  Optical coherence-domain reflectometry: a new optical evaluation technique. , 1987, Optics letters.

[3]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Entanglement-Induced Two-Photon Transparency , 1997 .

[4]  Ellipsometric measurements by use of photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion. , 2001, Optics letters.

[5]  J. Lavoie,et al.  Quantum-optical coherence tomography with classical light. , 2009, Optics express.

[6]  R. Zawadzki,et al.  Numerical dispersion compensation for Partial Coherence Interferometry and Optical Coherence Tomography. , 2001, Optics express.

[7]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Entangled-photon Fourier optics , 2002 .

[8]  M. Teich,et al.  Photonic Circuits for Generating Modal, Spectral, and Polarization Entanglement , 2010, IEEE Photonics Journal.

[9]  Wolfgang Drexler,et al.  Optical coherence tomography: Technology and applications , 2013, 2013 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO EUROPE/IQEC.

[10]  M. Teich,et al.  Squeezed state of light , 1989 .

[11]  Freddy T. Nguyen,et al.  Optical coherence tomography: a review of clinical development from bench to bedside. , 2007, Journal of biomedical optics.

[12]  M. Teich,et al.  Fundamentals of Photonics , 1991 .

[13]  Generation of high-flux ultra-broadband light by bandwidth amplification in spontaneous parametric down conversion , 2005 .

[14]  R. Huber,et al.  Wavelength swept amplified spontaneous emission source. , 2009, Optics express.

[15]  A Abouraddy,et al.  Quantum holography. , 2001, Optics express.

[16]  Generating ultra-broadband biphotons via chirped QPM down-conversion , 2008 .

[17]  M. Teich,et al.  Modal and polarization qubits in Ti:LiNbO3 photonic circuits for a universal quantum logic gate. , 2010, Optics express.

[18]  M C TeichT.  Squeezed states of light , 1989 .

[19]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Noise in Classical and Quantum Photon-Correlation Imaging , 2008 .

[20]  Gregory N Goltsman,et al.  Ultrabroadband coherence-domain imaging using parametric downconversion and superconducting single-photon detectors at 1064 nm. , 2009, Applied optics.

[21]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Polarization-sensitive quantum-optical coherence tomography , 2004 .

[22]  M. Teich,et al.  Non-collinear and non-degenerate polarization-entangled photon generation via concurrent type-I parametric downconversion in PPLN. , 2006, Optics express.

[23]  B L Danielson,et al.  Guided-wave reflectometry with micrometer resolution. , 1987, Applied optics.

[24]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh.  Introduction to Subsurface Imaging , 2011 .

[25]  Dheera Venkatraman,et al.  Classical low-coherence interferometry based on broadband parametric fluorescence and amplification. , 2009, Optics express.

[26]  M. Teich,et al.  Interfering entangled photons of different colors. , 1993, Physical review letters.

[27]  J. Lavoie,et al.  Classical analogues of two-photon quantum interference. , 2009, Physical review letters.

[28]  M. Brezinski.  Optical Coherence Tomography: Principles and Applications , 2006 .

[29]  N. Gisin,et al.  Highly efficient photon-pair source using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide , 2000 .

[30]  Jan Peřina,et al.  Quantum optics and fundamentals of physics , 1994 .

[31]  L. Mandel,et al.  Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics , 1995 .

[32]  Malvin C. Teich,et al.  OPTIMUM HETERODYNE DETECTION AT 10.6 μm IN PHOTOCONDUCTIVE Ge:Cu , 1966 .

[33]  Robert J. Zawadzki,et al.  Dispersion compensation for optical coherence tomography depth-scan signals by a numerical technique , 2002 .

[34]  A. Fercher,et al.  Chapter 4 – Optical coherence tomography , 2002 .

[35]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Maximum-likelihood image estimation using photon-correlated beams , 2002, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[36]  G. Ripandelli,et al.  Optical coherence tomography. , 1998, Seminars in ophthalmology.

[37]  K. Takada,et al.  New measurement system for fault location in optical waveguide devices based on an interferometric technique. , 1987, Applied optics.

[38]  B. Saleh,et al.  Antibunching in the Franck-Hertz experiment , 1983 .

[39]  M. Teich,et al.  Spectral engineering of entangled two-photon states , 2006 .

[40]  David D Sampson,et al.  Real-time dispersion compensation in scanning interferometry. , 2002, Optics letters.

[41]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  I Photon Bunching and Antibunching , 1988 .

[42]  Ruikang K. Wang,et al.  Theory, developments and applications of optical coherence tomography , 2005 .

[43]  M. Teich,et al.  Entangled-Photon Virtual-State Spectroscopy , 1998 .

[44]  J. Fujimoto,et al.  Ultrahigh-resolution ophthalmic optical coherence tomography , 2001, Nature Medicine.

[45]  J. Fujimoto,et al.  Optical Coherence Tomography , 1991, LEOS '92 Conference Proceedings.

[46]  Guoxin Rong,et al.  Quantum optical coherence tomography of a biological sample , 2008, LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.

[47]  Experimental realization of phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography. , 2010, Optics letters.

[48]  Alexander Sergienko,et al.  Dispersion-cancelled and dispersion-sensitive quantum optical coherence tomography. , 2004, Optics express.

[49]  D. Walls.  Squeezed states of light , 1983, Nature.

[50]  Spatial-to-spectral mapping in spontaneous parametric down-conversion , 2004 .

[51]  Marco Fiorentino,et al.  Spontaneous parametric down-conversion in periodically poled KTP waveguides and bulk crystals. , 2007, Optics express.

[52]  M. Teich,et al.  Decoherence-free subspaces in quantum key distribution. , 2003, Physical review letters.

[53]  B. Saleh,et al.  Odd- and even-order dispersion cancellation in quantum interferometry. , 2008, Physical review letters.

[54]  M C Teich,et al.  Role of entanglement in two-photon imaging. , 2001, Physical review letters.

[55]  M. Teich,et al.  Temperature and wavelength dependence of Fermi-tail photoemission and two-photon photoemission from multialkali semiconductors , 2006 .

[56]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Polarization-sensitive quantum optical coherence tomography: Experiment , 2010, 1011.4338.

[57]  M. Teich,et al.  Spatial coherence effects on second- and fourth-order temporal interference. , 2008, Optics express.

[58]  Olga Minaeva,et al.  Submicron axial resolution in an ultrabroadband two-photon interferometer using superconducting single-photon detectors. , 2008, Optics express.

[59]  M. Teich,et al.  Duality between partial coherence and partial entanglement , 2000 .

[60]  Malvin C. Teich,et al.  Multiple-Photon Processes and Higher Order Correlation Functions , 1966 .

[61]  M. Teich,et al.  Demonstration of dispersion-canceled quantum-optical coherence tomography. , 2003, Physical review letters.

[62]  M. Teich,et al.  Quantum ellipsometry using correlated-photon beams , 2004 .

[63]  Alexander Sergienko,et al.  Enhancing the axial resolution of quantum optical coherence tomography by chirped quasi-phase matching. , 2004, Optics letters.

[64]  M. Teich,et al.  Observation of sub-Poisson Franck-Hertz light at 253. 7 nm , 1984 .

[65]  M. Teich,et al.  Modal, Spectral, and Polarization Entanglement in Guided-Wave Parametric Down-Conversion , 2009, 0904.2923.

[66]  Hong,et al.  Measurement of subpicosecond time intervals between two photons by interference. , 1987, Physical review letters.

[67]  Silvia Carrasco,et al.  Broadband light generation by noncollinear parametric downconversion. , 2006, Optics letters.

[68]  D. Klyshko.  Photons Nonlinear Optics , 1988 .

[69]  Phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography , 2006, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference.

[70]  R. P. Novak,et al.  Submillimeter optical reflectometry , 1989 .

[71]  C K Hitzenberger,et al.  Dispersion effects in partial coherence interferometry: implications for intraocular ranging. , 1999, Journal of biomedical optics.

[72]  Teich,et al.  Nonlocal cancellation of dispersive broadening in Mach-Zehnder interferometers. , 1995, Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

[73]  M. Teich,et al.  Quantum-optical coherence tomography with dispersion cancellation , 2001, quant-ph/0111140.

[74]  M. Teich,et al.  Squeezed and Antibunched Light , 1990 .

[75]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Quantum theory of entangled-photon photoemission , 2004 .

[76]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Counterpropagating entangled photons from a waveguide with periodic nonlinearity , 2002 .

[77]  V. Torres‐Company,et al.  Cancellation of dispersion and temporal modulation with nonentangled frequency-correlated photons , 2010, 1011.6275.

[78]  Bahaa E. A. Saleh,et al.  Compressed sensing in optical coherence tomography , 2010, BiOS.

[79]  J. Fujimoto,et al.  Optical coherence tomography: technology and applications , 2002, IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMs.

[80]  Silvia Carrasco,et al.  Ultrabroadband biphotons generated via chirped quasi-phase-matched optical parametric down-conversion. , 2008, Physical review letters.