Quantum optics, Optical imaging, Information theory, Quantum metrology

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

A.M., Harvard University, 1979

M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1978

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Teacher of the Year, University of New Mexico, 2009
• Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2005

Selected Publications

1. S. Prasad, “Digital superresolution and the generalized sampling theorem,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 24, 311-325 (2007)
2. S. Prasad and R. Glauber, “Coherent scattering by a spherical medium of resonant atoms,” Phys. Rev. A 83, 063821-1:10 (2011) (May 2011)
3. S. Prasad, “New error bounds for M-testing and estimation of source location with sub-diffractive error,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29, 354-366 (2012)
4. S. Prasad, “Rotating point spread function by pupil phase engineering,” Opt. Lett. 38, 585-587 (2013)
5. S. Prasad, “Asymptotics of Bayesian error probability and 2D pair superresolution,” Opt. Express 22, 16029-16047 (2014)
6. Z. Yu and S. Prasad, “High numerical aperture microscopy with rotating PSF,"" J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33, B58-B69 (2016)
7. S. Prasad, “Extended Taylor frozen flow and statistics of optical phase in aero-optics,"" J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34, 931-942 (2017)
8. Z. Yu and S. Prasad, “Quantum limited superresolution of an incoherent source pair in three dimensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180504 (2018); also available online at arXiv:1805.09227v2 [quant-ph] (2018)
9. C. Wang, R. Chan, M. Nikolova, R. Plemmons, and S. Prasad, “Nonconvex optimization for 3D point source localization using a rotating point spread function,” SIAM J. Imaging Science 12, 259-286 (2019); also posted on arXiv at arXiv:1804.04000 [eess.SP] (2018)
10. S. Prasad and Z. Yu, “Quantum limited superlocalization and superresolution of an incoherent source pair in three dimensions,” Phys. Rev. A 99, 022116 (2019); also available online at arXiv:1807.09853 [quant-ph] (2018)
11. S. Prasad, “Quantum limited super-resolution of an unequal-brightness source pair in three dimensions,” Phys. Scripta 95, 054004 (2020); also available at arXiv:1908.10949 [quant-ph] (2019)
12. S. Prasad, “Quantum limited source localization and pair superresolution under finite emission bandwidth,” Phys. Rev. A 102, 033726 (2020); also available online in preprint form at http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00982 [quant-ph] (2020)
13. S. Prasad, “Quantum limited superresolution of extended sources in one and two dimensions,” submitted to Phys. Rev. A (August 2020); also available online in preprint form at arXiv:2008.09946 [quant-ph] (2020)