Efficient imaging of quantum emitters using compressive sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10463v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:13:44 GMT
• Title: Efficient imaging of quantum emitters using compressive sensing
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate a sensing-based imaging approach, where spatially structured wide-field excitation replaces scanning, enabling reconstruction of sparse emitters.<n>In addition to intensity reconstruction, we extend this framework to reconstruct spatial maps of the second-order correlation function $g(2)$ from measurements.<n>This enables identification of single-photon emitters through antibunching signatures using significantly reduced data.
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• Abstract: Optical imaging of quantum emitters is essential for a wide range of quantum applications. Conventional confocal imaging relies on point-by-point raster scanning, which is inherently time-consuming and photon-inefficient, particularly for sparse emitter distributions and photon-limited samples. Here, we demonstrate a compressive sensing-based imaging approach, where spatially structured wide-field excitation replaces raster scanning, enabling reconstruction of sparse emitters. In our implementation, random binary patterns are used to acquire compressive measurements, from which the spatial fluorescence distribution is reconstructed using a GPSR-BB algorithm. We experimentally demonstrate this approach using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a representative platform, with high-fidelity image reconstruction achieved using only approximately $20\%$ of the measurements required for conventional raster scanning. In addition to intensity reconstruction, we extend this framework to reconstruct spatial maps of the second-order correlation function $g^{(2)}(0)$ from compressive measurements. This enables identification of single-photon emitters through antibunching signatures using significantly reduced data.

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