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We demonstrate a new 'microsphere nanoscope' that uses ordinary SiO2 microspheres as superlenses to create a virtual image of the object in near field. The magnified virtual image greatly overcomes the diffraction limit. We are able to…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-21 Zengbo Wang , Wei Guo , Lin Li , Zhu Liu , Boris Luk'yanchuk , Zaichun Chen , Minghui Hong

Fluorescence microscopy is indispensable in nanoscience and biological sciences. The versatility of labeling target structures with fluorescent dyes permits to visualize structure and function at a subcellular resolution with a wide field…

We demonstrate focusing and imaging through a scattering medium noninvasively by using wavefront shaping. Our concept is based on utilizing the spatial fluorescence contrast which naturally exists in the hidden target object. By scanning…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-25 Anat Daniel , Dan Oron , Yaron Silberberg

We present the experimental observation of the superlensing effect in a slab of a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of tilted dielectric elements. We show that this flat lens can achieve subwavelength resolution in different frequency…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Salvatore Savo , Emiliano Di Gennaro , Antonello Andreone

A structure comprising a coupled pair of two-dimensional arrays of oblate plasmonic nanoellipsoids in a dielectric host medium is proposed as a superlens in the optical domain for both horizontal and vertical polarizations. By means of…

Face super-resolution aims to reconstruct a high-resolution face image from a low-resolution face image. Previous methods typically employ an encoder-decoder structure to extract facial structural features, where the direct downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Wenjie Li , Heng Guo , Xuannan Liu , Kongming Liang , Jiani Hu , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

The relentless pursuit of understanding matter at ever-finer scales has pushed optical microscopy to surpass the diffraction limit and produced the super-resolution microscopy which enables visualizing structures shorter than the wavelength…

We introduce the resonant metalens, a cluster of coupled subwavelength resonators. Dispersion allows the conversion of subwavelength wavefields into temporal signatures while the Purcell effect permits an efficient radiation of this…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-07 Fabrice Lemoult , Geoffroy Lerosey , Julien de Rosny , Mathias Fink

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength…

In an earlier paper we introduced the concept of the perfect lens which focuses both near and far electromagnetic fields, hence attaining perfect resolution. Here we consider refinements of the original prescription designed to overcome the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , J. B. Pendry , M. C. K Wiltshire , W. J. Stewart

It has been shown that negative refraction makes a perfect lens. However, with little loss, the imaging functionality will be strongly compromised. Later on, it was proved that positive refraction from Maxwell's fish-eye lens can also makes…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yangyang Zhou , Zhanlei Hao , Pengfei Zhao , Huanyang Chen

We present a high-resolution, simple and versatile system for imaging ultracold Rydberg atoms in optical lattices. The imaging objective is a single aspheric lens (with a working distance of 20.6 mm and a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.51)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Chuyang Shen , Cheng Chen , Xiao-Ling Wu , Shen Dong , Yue Cui , Li You , Meng Khoon Tey

The point of the paper is to show some limitations of geometrical optics in the analysis of subwavelength focusing. We analyze the resolution of the image of a line source radiating in the Maxwell fisheye and the Veselago-Pendry slab lens.…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-03 Sebastien Guenneau , Andre Diatta , Ross McPhedran

The concepts of spoof surface plasmon polaritons and adiabatic field compression are employed to design metallic near-field probes that allow guiding and focusing of mid-infrared wavelength electromagnetic radiation and provides…

The Abbe diffraction limit, tied to the fundamental spatial bandwidth constraint imposed by any physical aperture, remains the primary barrier to achieving ultimate far-field optical resolution and precise light-matter interactions.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-27 Chengda Song , Jing He , Xi Xie , Qian Wang , Yijie Shen , Fangwen Sun , Guanghui Yuan

Performing super-resolution of a depth image using the guidance from an RGB image is a problem that concerns several fields, such as robotics, medical imaging, and remote sensing. While deep learning methods have achieved good results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Nando Metzger , Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Konrad Schindler

Diffraction is a fundamental property of light propagation. Owing to this phenomenon,light diffracts out in all directions when it passes through a subwavelength slit.This imposes a fundamental limit on the transverse size of a light beam…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-11 S. V. Kukhlevsky , M. Mechler

Microscopes and various forms of interferometers have been used for decades in optical metrology of objects that are typically larger than the wavelength of light {\lambda}. However, metrology of subwavelength objects was deemed impossible…

We present an analytical description and an experimental realization of interscale mixing microscopy, a diffraction-based imaging technique that is capable of detecting wavelength/10 objects in far-field measurements with both coherent and…

We consider imaging of two partially coherent sources and derive the ultimate quantum limits for estimating the separation, location, relative intensity, and coherence factor. We show that super-resolution in the separation is achievable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Joaquín López-Suárez , Michalis Skotiniotis