Realistic sub-Rayleigh imaging with phase-sensitive measurements
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract As the separation between two emitters is decreased below the Rayleigh limit, the information that can be gained about their separation using traditional imaging techniques, photon counting in the image plane, reduces to nil. Assuming the sources are of equal intensity, Rayleigh’s ‘curse’ can be alleviated by making phase-sensitive measurements in the image plane. However, with unequal and unknown intensities the curse returns regardless of the measurement, though the ideal scheme would still outperform image plane counting (IPC), i.e. recording intensities on a screen. We analyze the limits of the super-resolved position localization by inversion of coherence along an edge (SPLICE) phase measurement scheme as the intensity imbalance between the emitters grows. We find that SPLICE still outperforms IPC for moderately disparate intensities. For larger intensity imbalances we propose a hybrid of IPC and SPLICE, which we call ‘adapted SPLICE’, requiring only simple modifications. Using Monte Carlo simulation, we identify regions (emitter brightness, separation, intensity imbalance) where it is advantageous to use SPLICE over IPC, and when to switch to the adapted SPLICE measurement. We find that adapted SPLICE can outperform IPC for large intensity imbalances, e.g. 10 000:1, with the advantage growing with greater disparity between the two intensities. Finally, we also propose additional phase measurements for estimating the statistical moments of more complex source distributions. Our results are promising for implementing phase measurements in sub-Rayleigh imaging tasks such as exoplanet detection.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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