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The resolution of far-field optical microscopes, which rely on propagating optical modes, is widely believed to be limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength $\lambda /2$ of the light used. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Christopher C. Davis , Jill Elliott , Anatoly V. Zayats

In the last few years, integrated optics (IO) beam combiners have facilitated the emergence of 4-telescope interferometers such as PIONIER or GRAVITY, boosting the imaging capabilities of the VLTI. However, the spectral range beyond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Jan Tepper , Lucas Labadie , Romina Diener , Stefano Minardi , Jörg-Uwe Pott , Robert R. Thomson , Stefan Nolte

We introduce a wide field hyperspectral microscope using the Fourier-transform approach. The interferometer is based on the Translating-Wedge-Based Identical Pulses eNcoding System (TWINS) [Opt. Lett. 37, 3027 (2012)], a common-path…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 A. Candeo , B. E. Nogueira de Faria , M. Erreni , G. Valentini , A. Bassi , A. M. de Paula , G. Cerullo , C. Manzoni

Because of atmospheric turbulence, obtaining high angular resolution images with a high dynamic range is difficult even in the near infrared domain of wavelengths. We propose a novel technique to overcome this issue. The fundamental idea is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Perrin , S. Lacour , J. Woillez , E. Thiebaut

Programmable linear optical interferometers are important for classical and quantum information technologies, as well as for building hardware-accelerated artificial neural networks. Recent results showed the possibility of constructing…

In this article, we report an imaging method, termed Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM), which iteratively stitches together a number of variably illuminated, low-resolution intensity images in Fourier space to produce a wide-field,…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-02 Guoan Zheng , Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang

High throughput optical system is defined to possess the features of both large field of view (FOV) and high resolution. However, it is full of challenge to design such a telescope with the two conflicting specifications at the same time.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Huiru Ji , Zhengbo Zhu , Hao Tan , Yuefan Shan , Wei Tan , Donglin Ma

The superposition of several optical beams with large mutual angles results in sub-micrometer periodic patterns with a complex intensity, phase and polarization structure. For high-resolution imaging thereof, one often employs optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-20 Lipeng Wan , Tianbao Yu , Daomu Zhao , Wolfgang Löffler

In the framework of the signal processing approach to single-atom resonance fluorescence with spectral resolution, we diagrammatically derive an analytical formula for arbitrary-order spectral correlation functions of the scattered fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin , Sergei Ya. Kilin

Coherent diffraction imaging is a high-resolution imaging technique whose potential can be greatly enhanced by applying the extrapolation method presented here. We demonstrate enhancement in resolution of a non-periodical object…

This paper introduces a single-pixel HyperSpectral (HS) imaging framework based on Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI). By combining a space-time coding of the light illumination with partial interferometric observations of a collimated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Amirafshar Moshtaghpour , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Laurent Jacques

X-ray interferometry provides valuable information in terms of attenuation, small-angle scatter, and differential phase contrast. This multi-modal contrast can aid in many clinical applications, such as lung diseases and breast cancer.…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-12 Murtuza S. Taqi , Joyoni Dey , Hunter C. Meyer

This paper reported a general noninterferometric high-accuracy quantitative phase imaging (QPI) method for arbitrary complex valued objects. Given by a typical 4f optical configuration as the imaging system, three frames of small-window…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Jianhui Huang , An Pan , Huiliang Jin , Guoxiang Meng , Qian Ye

Optical superresolution microscopy is an important field, where nonlinear optical processes or prior information is used to defeat the classical diffraction limit of light. Quantum correlation microscopy uses photon arrival statistics from…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

Understanding the atmospheres of exoplanets is a milestone to decipher their formation history and potential habitability. High-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets is the major pathway towards the goal. Directly imaging of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Ji Wang , Colby Jurgenson

The correction of the influence of phase corrugation in the pupil plane is a fundamental issue in achieving high dynamic range imaging. In this paper, we investigate an instrumental setup which consists in applying interferometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Lacour , E. Thiébaut , G. Perrin

The angular resolution is tha ability of a telescope to render detail: the higher the resolution the finer is the detail. it is, together with the aperture, the most important characteristic of telescopes. We propose a new construction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Chadzitaskos , J. Tolar

An extension may be proposed to the intensity interferometer of Hanbury Brown and Twiss to provide the Fourier phase measurement by the use of third-order intensity correlations. It is well known that interferometric reconstruction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-14 B. E. Zhilyaev

Fourier-based optical computing operations, such as spatial differentiation, have recently been realized in compact form factors using flat optics. Experimental demonstrations, however, have been limited to coherent light requiring laser…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Xiaomeng Zhang , Benfeng Bai , Hong-Bo Sun , Guofan Jin , Jason Valentine

In the future, optical stellar interferometers will provide true images thanks to larger number of telescopes and to advanced cophasing subsystems. These conditions are required to have sufficient resolution elements (resel) in the image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Patru , N. Tarmoul , D. Mourard , O. Lardiere