Fundamental Limit for One versus Two Point Sources Detection using Direct Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00968v1
• Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 02:56:32 GMT
• Title: Fundamental Limit for One versus Two Point Sources Detection using Direct Imaging
• Abstract summary: We consider the task of distinguishing between a single weak incoherent optical point source and two weak incoherent optical point sources located symmetrically about the first source.<n>$$ is the separation between the two point sources scaled to the Point Spread Function (PSF) width in the image plane.<n>We quantify the performance using the Bhattacharyya distance and find the scaling of its leading order term in terms of $$ in the sub-Rayleigh regime.
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• Abstract: We consider the task of distinguishing between a single weak incoherent optical point source and two weak incoherent optical point sources located symmetrically about the first source. $θ$ is the separation between the two point sources scaled to the Point Spread Function (PSF) width in the image plane. Using an ideal focal plane array of intensity detectors (ideal direct imaging), we quantify the performance using the Bhattacharyya distance and find the scaling of its leading order term in terms of $θ$ in the sub-Rayleigh regime. A suite of previous analyses of this problem lacked a comprehensive analysis for when the amplitude spread function (ASF) of the imaging system has zeros and reported a scaling that we find to be incorrect. We complete this analysis by explicitly calculating the leading order term of the Bhattacharyya distance for ideal direct imaging with any ASF, for small $θ$ and show the difference in scaling based on the presence or absence of zeros in the ASF. This is similar to the ASF dependent performance in the task of estimating the separation between the two point sources and the task of detecting a change to an object. We then apply our results to the specific example of a Gaussian and a Sinc ASF and show good agreement with numerical calculations. Our results allow the accurate comparison of other measurement schemes with ideal direct imaging, and to the quantum limit.

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