Sudhakar Prasad

Sudhakar Prasad
Visiting Professor, School of Physics and AstronomyContact
Physics And Nanotechnology Building Room 222 115 Union St. SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Biographical Info
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983
A.M., Harvard University, 1979
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1978
Research & Teaching
Research Interests
Quantum optics, Optical imaging, Information theory, Quantum metrology
Publications & Awards
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year, University of New Mexico, 2009
- Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2005
Selected Publications
- S. Prasad, “Digital superresolution and the generalized sampling theorem,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 24, 311-325 (2007)
- S. Prasad and R. Glauber, “Coherent scattering by a spherical medium of resonant atoms,” Phys. Rev. A 83, 063821-1:10 (2011) (May 2011)
- 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)
- S. Prasad, “Rotating point spread function by pupil phase engineering,” Opt. Lett. 38, 585-587 (2013)
- S. Prasad, “Asymptotics of Bayesian error probability and 2D pair superresolution,” Opt. Express 22, 16029-16047 (2014)
- Z. Yu and S. Prasad, “High numerical aperture microscopy with rotating PSF,"" J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33, B58-B69 (2016)
- S. Prasad, “Extended Taylor frozen flow and statistics of optical phase in aero-optics,"" J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34, 931-942 (2017)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)