Expertise:

The team members enter this project with demonstrated extensive experience in quantum optics, detection theory, quantum tomography as well as experimentally oriented research in this field.
The team members have made pioneering and seminal contributions in the fields of quantum-state estimation and tomography protocols for characterizing and processing random light.
The research team has been involved in multiple long-term collaborations with a number of research groups worldwide.
This can be documented by joint projects and publications on subjects closely related to the proposed project:
polarization tomography (prof. G. Leuchs, Max Planck institute in Erlangen), incomplete and adaptive measurements (prof. B.-G. Englert, National University of Singapore), iterative maximum-likelihood reconstruction (prof. E. Knill, NIST Boulder; prof. A. Lvovsky, University of Calgary), vortex tomography (prof. L.L. Sanchez-Soto, Complutense University of Madrid), data pattern tomography (prof. D. Mogilevtsev, University of Minsk), time-multiplexed detection (prof. Ch. Silberhorn, University of Paderborn), and spatial degrees of freedom of single photons (prof. R.W. Boyd, University of Ottawa).

Bohumil Stoklasa, Ph.D. (male), young researcher, 17 papers in the last 6 years, 197 citations, h-index 8.
He is a skilled experimenter specialized in experimental quantum tomography and super-resolution based on Quantum Fisher information.
He has experience with 3D tomography protocols for large datasets implemented by low level programming techniques.

Jaroslav Řeháček(male), full professor, more than 80 publications, more than 1100 citations, h-index 18.
His research is focused on the fundamental aspects of metrology and imaging.

Zdenek Hradil (male), full professor, more than 110 papers with 1600 citations, h-index 21. He is mainly concerned with analysing the ultimate resolution limits and developing new detection schemes for tomography of complex optical signals.

List of relevant publications:
  • M. Paúr, B. Stoklasa, Z. Hradil, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, and J. Řeháček, Achieving the ultimate optical resolution, Optica 3, 1144-1147 (2016).
  • B. Stoklasa, L. Moťka, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Wavefront sensing reveals optical coherence, Nature Communications 5, 3275 (2014).
  • C.R. Müller, B. Stoklasa, C. Peuntinger, C. Gabriel, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, A.B. Klimov, G. Leuchs, Ch. Marquardt, and L.L. Sánchez-Soto, Quantum polarization tomography of bright squeezed light, New J. Phys. 14, 085002 (2012).
  • M. Paúr, B. Stoklasa, J. Grover, A. Krzic, L.L. Sánchez-Soto, Z. Hradil, J. Řeháček, Tempering Rayleigh’s curse with PSF shaping, Optica 5, 1177-1180 (2018).
  • J. Řehaček, Z. Hradil, B. Stoklasa, M. Paúr, J. Grover, A. Krzic, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Multiparameter quantum metrology of incoherent point sources: Towards realistic superresolution, Phys. Rev. A 96, 062107 (2017).

Grants

  • UPO team is currently involved in the project “Ultimate resolution limits in optical detection and metrology” (MEYS funding) focused on overcoming the standard limits of imaging and metrology usually associated with diffraction and other physical effects.

  • Second project of relevance to the proposal topic, “Center of electron and photon optics” (TACR funding), is dedicated to improvement of standard metrology for industrial optical systems.