I think it will be a long time before we can image a photon. But we might be able to see the shape of one, shortly, with some of these new quantum sensors. We might be able to plot the shape and motion of such, but not an image. Any size photon will do. They all have the same shape.
These sensors form a media that has electrical alignment and field state, that can detect distortions in this state as a photon passes thru. Think as of a large array of atomic alignments. Forming a unified field blanket that can record which atoms are effected. Plotting a shape and motion of the disturbance. Very sensitive. With fast recording rates. Motion detection. Small quick motion detection.
Most vision requires a flux of photons, we call light, to sense light. Flux would drown a quantum sensor. But still have many uses. Modulation/demodulation. High rate modulation. Light transducers.
We should be able to easily detect single photons too. 1,000,000 sequential polarized photons recorded at different sampling times could give us a good idea. Of shape and motion. Even changes in field density. A detailed shape, but still not an image.
The image will have to wait until we can strobe a light photon with a gamma photon. We will be able to strobe electron image at this rate too. But not protons. Protons are gamma rate. Higher rates needed to strobe them.
An interesting future. And all future is supposition.
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