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We propose a near-infrared super resolution imaging system without a lens or a mirror but with an array of metallic nanoshell particle chain. The imaging array can plasmonically transfer the near-field components of dipole sources in the…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-17 Weijie Kong , Xiaoping Zhang , Penfei Cao , Lin Cheng , Li Gong , Xining Zhao , Lili Yang

Single molecule applications, saturated pattern excitation microscopy, or stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy demand for bright and highly stable fluorescent dyes1,2. Despite of intensive research the choice of fluorphores is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 Christian Grunwald , Katrin Schulze , Gregory Giannone , Laurent Cognet , Brahim Lounis , Daniel Choquet , Robert Tampé

Distinguishing two objects or point sources located closer than the Rayleigh distance is impossible in conventional microscopy. Understandably, the task becomes increasingly harder with a growing number of particles placed in close…

Nanophotonic objects like plasmonic nanoparticles and colloidal quantum dots can complement the functionality of molecular dyes in biomedical optics. However, their operation is usually governed by spontaneous processes, which results in…

Light scattering by tissue severely limits how deep beneath the surface one can image, and the spatial resolution one can obtain from these images. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the most powerful techniques for imaging deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Yongyi Zhao , Ankit Raghuram , Hyun K. Kim , Andreas H. Hielscher , Jacob T. Robinson , Ashok Veeraraghavan

We propose a scheme to retrieve the size parameters of a nano-particle on a glass substrate at a scale much smaller than the wavelength. This is achieved by illuminating the particle using two plane waves to create rich and non-trivial…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-27 Zheng Xi , H. P. Urbach

We present a new kind of fluorescent oxide nanoparticles with properties well suited to active-tip based near-field optics. These particles with an average diameter in the range 5-10 nm are produced by Low Energy Cluster Beam Deposition…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-09 A. Cuche , B. Masenelli , G. Ledoux , D. Amans , C. Dujardin , Y. Sonnefraud , P. Melinon , S. Huant

Understanding and manipulating two-dimensional materials for real-world applications remains challenging due to a lack of effective and high-throughput characterization techniques. Soft X-ray time-of-flight photoemission electron microscopy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Aashwin Mishra , Daniel Ratner , Quynh Nguyen

This paper is concerned with investigating super-resolution algorithms and solutions for handling electron microscopic images. We note two main aspects differentiating the problem discussed here from those considered in the literature. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Yanjun Qian , Jiaxi Xu , Lawrence F. Drummy , Yu Ding

Super-resolution tasks oriented to images captured in ultra-dark environments is a practical yet challenging problem that has received little attention. Due to uneven illumination and low signal-to-noise ratio in dark environments, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiaxin Gao , Ziyu Yue , Yaohua Liu , Sihan Xie , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Infrared (IR) dyes, especially those within the near-infrared (NIR) spectrum, offer substantial advantages for in vivo imaging, owing to their deep tissue penetration and minimal background autofluorescence. Nanoparticles incorporating…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Michael Adeniyi

Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) is widely used to detect and quantify diffusion processes at the molecular level. The molecules of which diffusion is studied are marked with fluorescent dyes. It is commonly maintained that this…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Mathias Lechelon , Marco Pettini

Fluorescence microscopy is an important and extensively utilised tool for imaging biological systems. However, the image resolution that can be obtained has a limit as defined through the laws of diffraction. Demand for improved resolution…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 James H. Rice

Far-field chemical microscopy providing molecular electronic or vibrational fingerprint information opens a new window for the study of three-dimensional biological, material, and chemical systems. Chemical microscopy provides a…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingwei Tang , Yubing Han , Danchen Jia , Qing Yang , Ji-Xin Cheng

Understanding and modeling energy transfer mechanisms in rare-earth-doped nanomaterials is essential for advancing luminescent technologies used in bioimaging, optical thermometry, and solid-state lasers. In this work, we investigate the…

We used two-dimensional Finte-Difference-Time-Domain (FDTD) software to study the transition behavior of nano-particles from scatterers to an optically uniform medium. We measured the transmission efficiency of the dipole source, which is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Young-Gu Ju , Guilhem Almuneau , Tae-Hoon Kim , Baek-Woon Lee

Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ugo Zanforlin , Cosmo Lupo , Peter W. R. Connolly , Pieter Kok , Gerald S. Buller , Zixin Huang

Measuring the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of chemistry in nanoscale matter is a longstanding challenge for metrological science. The inelastic scattering events required for 3D chemical imaging are too rare, requiring high beam…

We show that the optical and electronic properties of nanocrystalline silicon can be efficiently tuned using impurity doping. In particular, we give evidence, by means of ab-initio calculations, that by properly controlling the doping with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Federico Iori , Elena Degoli , Rita Magri , Ivan Marri , G. Cantele , D. Ninno , F. Trani , O. Pulci , Stefano Ossicini

We use molecules to couple light into and out of microscale plasmonic waveguides. Energy transfer, mediated by surface plasmons, from donor molecules to acceptor molecules over ten micrometer distances is demonstrated. Also surface plasmon…