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Ptychography is an imaging technique which involves a sample being illuminated by a coherent, localized probe of illumination. When the probe interacts with the sample, the light is diffracted and a diffraction pattern is detected. Then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Mark Iwen , Michael Perlmutter , Mark Philip Roach

Controlling the coherent optical response of inhomogeneous ensembles is a key challenge in advancing light-matter interaction engineering. We present a comparative study of two spectral tailoring approaches using two-dimensional coherent…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 Pradeep Kumar , Rohan Singh

This paper presents a comprehensive numerical analysis of super-resolution imaging using dielectric microparticles, employing the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method to elucidate the mechanisms that enable resolution enhancements…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-18 Arlen Bekirov , Zengbo Wang , Boris Lukyanchuk

In Part I of this diptych, we outline the parallel mode of differential phase contrast (TEM-DPC), which uses real-space distortion of Fresnel images arising from electrostatic or magnetostatic fields to quantify the phase gradient of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 G. W. Paterson , G. M. Macauley , S. McVitie , Y. Togawa

We report a monochrome multi-task diffractive network architecture that leverages illumination phase multiplexing to dynamically reconfigure its output function and accurately implement a large group of complex-valued linear transformations…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiao Wang , Aydogan Ozcan

The contrast transfer function (CTF) is widely used to evaluate phase retrieval methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), including center-of-mass imaging, parallax imaging, direct ptychography, and iterative…

We propose a novel scheme for asymmetric light diffraction of a weak probe field into a one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) lattice occupied with cold atoms. The atoms are driven into the double lambda-type configuration by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Ali Akbar Naeimi , Elham Darabi , Ali Mortezapour , Ghasem Naeimi

Optical spectrum analysis is the cornerstone of spectroscopic sensing, optical network performance monitoring, and hyperspectral imaging. While conventional high-performance spectrometers used to perform such analysis are often large…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Derek M. Kita , Brando Miranda , David Favela , David Bono , Jerome Michon , Hongtao Lin , Tian Gu , Juejun Hu

Fourier ptychographic microscopy enables gigapixel-scale imaging, with both large field-of-view and high resolution. Using a set of low-resolution images that are recorded under varying illumination angles, the goal is to computationally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-13 Emrah Bostan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , David Ren , Laura Waller

Utilizing the Pauli equation based multislice method, introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127203 (2016), we study the atomic resolution differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging on an example of a hard magnet FePt with in-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alexander Edström , Axel Lubk , Ján Rusz

Multi-energy CT has long demonstrated its ability to enhance image quality with material decomposition. Yet, it has largely been limited to applications that already have high contrast. More recently, x-ray phase-contrast (XPC) imaging has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Giavanna Jadick , Patrick La Rivière

The estimation and compensation of quasi-static aberrations is mandatory to reach the ultimate performance of high-contrast imaging systems. COFFEE is a focal plane wave-front sensing method that consists in the extension of phase diversity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Paul , L. M. Mugnier , J. -F. Sauvage , K. Dohlen

Dynamic computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging is a promising approach for acute ischemic stroke diagnosis and evaluation. Hemodynamic parametric maps of cerebral parenchyma are calculated from repeated CT scans of the first pass of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Dufan Wu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li

We present a novel iterative scheme for restoring uneven illumination in grayscale images. Our approach solves, at each global iteration, a nonlinear elliptic equation for an auxiliary field $u$ and then updates the illumination via an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Dragos-Patru Covei

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently developed computational imaging technique for wide-field, high-resolution microscopy with a high space-bandwidth product. It integrates the concepts of synthetic aperture and phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Chuanjian Zheng , Shaohui Zhang , Guocheng Zhou , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

In Part I of this diptych, we outlined the theory and an analysis methodology for quantitative phase recovery from real-space distortions of Fresnel images acquired in the parallel mode of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In that…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 G. W. Paterson , G. M. Macauley , S. McVitie , Y. Togawa

Integrated photonic chips have significant potential in telecommunications, classic computing, quantum systems, and topological photonics. Direct laser writing offers unique capability for creating three-dimensional photonic devices in an…

We propose an imaging system and methodology for mapping soft-tissue samples in three dimensions, with micron-scale and isotropic spatial resolution, with low-concentrations as well as in the absence of heavy metal staining. We used hard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-21 Michela Esposito , Nicole Schieber , Alessandro Olivo , Yannick Schwab , Marco Endrizzi

The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorised (Science 321 (2008), Physics Review Letters 101 (2008)) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Thomas Gregory , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Miles J. Padgett

During In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), combining time-lapse contrast microscopy with suitable image processing techniques could facilitate non-invasive classification of oocyte health, driving oocyte selection to maximise success rates. One…