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Here we report a method for visualization of volumetric structural information of live biological samples with no exogenous contrast agents. The process is made possible through a technique that involves generation, synthesis and analysis…

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

Many applications require recovering the geometry information of multiple elastic particles based on the scattering information. In this paper, we consider the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering of multiple rigid particles in three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jun Lai , Jinrui Zhang

We demonstrate high-resolution non-iterative holographic coherent diffraction imaging with hard X-rays using a novel phase-shifting reference, fabricated by atomic layer deposition to produce nanosharp 3D structure. The method surpasses the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Mirna Saliba , Jeroen Bosgra , Christoph Rau , Christian David , Aaron D. Parsons , Ulrich H. Wagner , Pierre Thibault

We find exact conditions for the enhancement or suppression of internal and/or scattered fields and the determination of their spatial distribution or angular momentum through the combination of simple fields. The incident fields can be…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Benjamin Hourahine , Francesco Papoff

Optical imaging through scattering media is an important challenge in a variety of fields ranging from microscopy to autonomous vehicles. While advanced wavefront shaping techniques have offered significant breakthroughs in the past decade,…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-23 Omri Haim , Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Ori Katz

A large field of view of an optical system is needed for many applications, and optical systems with high magnification often suffer from a limited field of view due to the limited size of the camera sensor. This study proposes a novel…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sai Deepika Sure , Jawahar Prabhakar Desai , Joseph Rosen

This paper addresses the challenging and interesting inverse problem of reconstructing the spatially varying dielectric constant of a medium from phaseless backscattering measurements generated by single-point illumination. The underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Thuy T. Le , Phuong M. Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

A phase diagram, defined by the amplitude square and phase of scattering coefficients for absorption cross-section in each individual channel, is introduced as a universal map on the electromagnetic properties for passive scatterers.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-26 Jeng Yi Lee , Ray-Kuang Lee

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering a doubly periodic Lipschitz structure through the measurement of the scattered field above the structure produced by point sources lying above the structure. The medium above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Guanghui Hu , Bo Zhang

Light-matter interaction is exploited in spectroscopic techniques to access information about molecular, atomic or nuclear constituents of the sample of interest. While scattered light carries both amplitude and phase information of the…

Optical imaging through complex scattering media is one of the major technical challenges with important applications in many research fields, ranging from biomedical imaging, astronomical telescopy, and spatially multiplex optical…

Coherent Diffractive Imaging is a lensless technique that allows imaging of matter at a spatial resolution not limited by lens aberrations. This technique exploits the measured diffraction pattern of a coherent beam scattered by periodic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alessandro Colombo , Davide Emilio Galli , Liberato De Caro , Francesco Scattarella , Elvio Carlino

X-ray near field holography has proven to be a powerful 2D and 3D imaging technique with applications ranging from biomedical research to material sciences. To reconstruct meaningful and quantitative images from the measurement intensities,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Jens Lucht , Leon M. Lohse , Thorsten Hohage , Tim Salditt

Similar to the obstacle or medium scattering problems, an important property of the phaseless far field patterns for source scattering problems is the translation invariance. Thus it is impossible to reconstruct the location of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

Light scattering within scattering media presents a substantial obstacle to optical transmission. A speckle pattern with random amplitude and phase distribution is observed when coherent light travels through strong scattering media.…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-01 Hui Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoxue Zhang , Xudong Chen , Zhili Lin

Uniqueness theorems are proved for 3-d inverse scattering problems in the frequency domain under the assumption that only the modulus of the complex valued wave field is measured, while the phase is unknown.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Michael V. Klibanov

We consider an inverse acoustic scattering problem in simultaneously recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding inhomogeneous medium by formally determined far-field data. It is shown that the knowledge of the scattering amplitude…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu

We present a simple, frequency domain, preprocessing step to Kirchhoff migration that allows the method to image scatterers when the wave field phase information is lost at the receivers, and only intensities are measured. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Patrick Bardsley , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

We introduce a new, highly sensitive, and simple heterodyne optical method for imaging individual non-fluorescent nano-objects. A two orders of magnitude improvement of the signal is achieved compared to previous methods. This allows for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Berciaud , Laurent Cognet , Gerhard Blab , Brahim Lounis