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Interscale Mixing Microscopy: numerically stable imaging of wavelength- scale objects with sub- wavelength resolution and far field measurements

Optics 2017-03-21 v2

Abstract

We present an imaging technique that allows the recovery of the transparency profile of wavelength-scale objects with deep subwavelength resolution based on far-field intensity measurements. The approach, interscale mixing microscopy (IMM), relies on diffractive element positioned in the near-field proximity to the object, to scatter information carried by evanescent waves into propagating part of the spectrum. A combination of numerical solutions of Maxwell equations and nonlinear fitting is then used to recover the information about the object based on far-field intensity measurements. The potential of the developed formalism to recover wavelength/20 features of wavelength-scale objects in presence of up to 10% noise is demonstrated.

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@article{arxiv.1406.6726,
  title  = {Interscale Mixing Microscopy: numerically stable imaging of wavelength- scale objects with sub- wavelength resolution and far field measurements},
  author = {Sandeep Inampudi and Nicholas Kuhta and Viktor A. Podolskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6726},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages 4 figures