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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

We propose a generalization of the two-dimensional eikonal-limit cloak derived from a conformal transformation to three dimensions. The proposed cloak is a spherical shell composed of only isotropic media; it operates in the transmission…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-28 Yaroslav Urzhumov , Nathan Landy , David R. Smith

We reconsider the refraction of evanescent waves at an interface between air and negative index medium under the assumption that negative index medium is necessarily dispersive and lossy. We show that all evanescent waves in air will be…

Optics · Physics 2009-06-26 Weiguo Yang , John O. Schenk , Michael A. Fiddy

Analyzing microscopy images to extract biological object properties (e.g., their morphological organization, temporal dynamics, and population density) is fundamental to various biomedical research. Yet conducting this manually is costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiaofei Hui , Haoxuan Qu , Hossein Rahmani , Shuohong Wang , Jeff W. Lichtman , Jun Liu

High index optical waveguide devices such as slab waveguides, strip waveguides and fibers play extremely important roles in a wide range of modern applications including telecommunications, sensing, lasing, interferometry, and resonant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

Optics related to non-Euclidean geometry has been attracting growing interest for emerged novel phenomena and the analog for general relativity, while most studies are limited to the free space on rotationally-symmetric surfaces. In this…

The application of transformation optics to the development of intriguing electromagnetic devices can produce weakly anisotropic or isotropic media with the assistance of quasi-conformal and/or conformal mapping, as opposed to the strongly…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-03 Xiaoyu Zhao , Hong Deng , Xiaoke Gao , Xikui Ma , Tianyu Dong

We report on the realization of an optical microcavity consisting in the plane-plane arrangement of two suspended resonant mirrors possessing spectrally overlapping high-quality factor internal resonances. We first investigate its generic…

The original carpet cloak [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203901 (2008)] was designed by a numerical method, the quasi-conformal mapping. Therefore its refractive index profile was obtained numerically. In this letter, we propose a new carpet cloak…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-12 Hui Li , Yadong Xu , Qiannan Wu , Huanyang Chen

We propose a scheme for imaging periodic surfaces using a superlens. By employing an inverse scattering model and the transformed field expansion method, we derive an approximate reconstruction formula for the surface profile, assuming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Peijun Li , Yuliang Wang

We present a novel coarse-to-fine framework that derives a semi-regular multiscale mesh representation of an original input mesh via remeshing. Our approach differs from the conventional mesh wavelet transform strategy in two ways. First,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Hao-Chiang Shao

The present study deals with total internal reflection of a plane electromagnetic wave at an infinite plane boundary between a transparent medium and an amplifying or attenuating lower-index medium. Solutions of Maxwell's equations are…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-13 Takeyuki Kobayashi

We introduce the concept of non-uniform metamirrors (full-reflection metasurfaces) providing full control of reflected wave fronts independently from the two sides of the mirror. Metamirror is a single planar array of electrically small…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-08 Viktar Asadchy , Younes Radi , Sergei Tretyakov

This is the first article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. Speckle is the complex interference wave-field produced by a random distribution of un-resolved scatterers. In this paper, we show…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Curved reflective mirrors play an indispensable role in widely-employed Cassegrain-type optics, which consequently are inevitably bulky, and thus neither integratable nor well extendable. Through substituting geometric phase based…

Recently, gradient index cavities, or so-called transformation cavities, designed by conformal transformation optics have been studied to support resonant modes with both high Q-factors and emission directionality. We propose a new design…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jinhang Cho

By co-designing a meta-optical front end in conjunction with an image-processing back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior to either an optics-only or a computation-only approach, illustrated by two…

We are used to describe the detection of light in terms of particles and its propagation from the source to the detection, by waves. For instance, the slowing down of light in a transparent medium is always explained within the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Marcel Urban , Francois Couchot , Sylvie Dagoret Campagne , Xavier Sarazin

In this paper, we introduce the Phantom Domain Finite Element Method (PDFEM), a novel computational approach tailored for the efficient analysis of heterogeneous and composite materials. Inspired by fictitious domain methods, this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tianlong He , Philippe Karamian-Surville , Daniel Choï

A method for determining the permittivity and permeability for specimens with high refractive index and variable shape is investigated. The method extracts the permeability and permittivity tensor elements from reflection measurements made…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-29 Mark M. Scott , Daniel L. Faircloth , Jeffrey A. Bean , Kenneth W. Allen