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Various imaging techniques have significantly enhanced our ability to visualize objects embedded within complex media such as biological tissues, fog, atmosphere, or various turbid media. Optical imaging, in particular, offers multiple…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-05 Mingwei He , Sujit K. Sahoo , Chengyuan Xiao , Cuong Dang

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

Using conventional refraction-based optical lens, it is challenging to achieve both high-resolution imaging and long-working-distance condition. To increase the numerical aperture of a lens, the working distance should be compensated, and…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-12 YoonSeok Baek , KyeoReh Lee , YongKeun Park

Imaging inside scattering media at optical resolution is a longstanding challenge affecting multiple fields, from bio-medicine to astronomy. In recent years, several groundbreaking techniques for imaging inside scattering media, in…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Elad Sunray , Gil Weinberg , Moriya Rosenfeld , Ori Katz

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…

In this paper we propose a new optical architecture for the laser optical feedback imaging (LOFI) technique which makes it possible to avoid the adverse effect of the optical parasitic backscattering introduced by all the optical interfaces…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-27 Olivier Jacquin , Samuel Heidmann , Eric Lacot , Olivier Hugon

Fourier ptychographic (FP) microscope is a coherent imaging method that can synthesize an image with a higher bandwidth using multiple low-bandwidth images captured at different spatial frequency regions. The method's demand for multiple…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-25 Jaebum Chung , Hangwen Lu , Xiaoze Ou , Haojiang Zhou , Changhuei Yang

Non-invasive and single-shot holographic imaging through complex media is technically challenging due to random light scattering which significantly scrambles optical information. Recently, several methods have been presented to address…

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

Thick biological tissues give rise to not only the scattering of incoming light waves, but also aberrations of the remaining unscattered waves. Due to the inability of existing optical imaging methodologies to overcome both of these…

While scattered light conveys most of the information we perceive, scattering may also distort that information before it reaches our detectors. The problem is acute in many applications, such as in high-resolution microscopy of biological…

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-29 Jason Holloway , M. Salman Asif , Manoj Kumar Sharma , Nathan Matsuda , Roarke Horstmeyer , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Light-field microscopy represents a promising solution for microscopic volumetric imaging, thanks to its capability to encode information on multiple planes in a single acquisition. This is achieved through its peculiar simultaneous capture…

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

High-resolution optical microscopy suffers from a low contrast in scattering media where a multiply scattered wave obscures a ballistic wave used for image formation. To extend the imaging depth, various gating operations - confocal,…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-08 Mooseok Jang , Hakseok Ko , Won Kyu Lee , Jae-Seung Lee , Wonshik Choi

Microscopy is the workhorse of the physical and life sciences, producing crisp images of everything from atoms to cells well beyond the capabilities of the human eye. However, the analysis of these images is frequently little better than…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-18 Matthew Bierbaum , Brian D. Leahy , Alexander A. Alemi , Itai Cohen , James P. Sethna

Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise, super-resolution techniques remain…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephane Perrin , Keshia Badu , Paul Montgomery , Sylvain Lecler

We present the first demonstration of shot-noise limited supercontinuum-based spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) with axial resolution of 5.9 $\mu$m at a center wavelength of 1370 nm. Current supercontinuum-based SD-OCT…

Deep, high-resolution imaging is essential for unraveling biological complexity and advancing medical diagnostics, yet scattering fundamentally limits optical methods. Among the most promising approaches, photoacoustic imaging achieves…