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Interferometric scattering microscopy has been a very promising technology for highly sensitive label-free imaging of a broad spectrum of biological nanoparticles from proteins to viruses in a high-throughput manner. Although it can reveal…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Celalettin Yurdakul , Haonan Zong , Yeran Bai , Ji-Xin Cheng , M. Selim Unlu

Multi-spectral imaging, which simultaneously captures the spatial and spectral information of a scene, is widely used across diverse fields, including remote sensing, biomedical imaging, and agricultural monitoring. Here, we introduce a…

We experimentally demonstrate how to solve the phase problem of diffraction using multi-wave interference with standard diffraction experimental setups without the need for taking any auxiliary data. In particular, we show that the phases…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 M. Fally , Y. Tomita , A. Fimia , R. F. Madrigal , J. Guo , J. Kohlbrecher , J. Klepp

We develop a novel hyperspectral imaging system using structured illumination in an SLM-based Michelson interferometer. In our design, we use a reflective SLM as a mirror in one of the arms of a Michelson interferometer, and scan the…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-25 Amar Deo Chandra , Mintu Karmakar , Dibyendu Nandy , Ayan Banerjee

Polarimetric imaging provides valuable insights into the polarization state of light interacting with a sample. It can infer crucial birefringence properties of bio-specimens without using any labels, thereby facilitating the diagnosis of…

Single-molecule microscopy has become an indispensable tool for biochemical analysis. The capability of characterizing distinct properties of individual molecules without averaging has provided us with a different perspective for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Miao-Hsuan Chien , Silvan Schmid

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

Hyperspectral imaging is an important tool having been applied in various fields, but still limited in observation of dynamic scenes. In this paper, we propose a snapshot hyperspectral imaging technique which exploits both spectral and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Chao Deng , Xuemei Hu , Jinli Suo , Yuanlong Zhang , Zhili Zhang , Qionghai Dai

We introduce transversely structured all-dielectric waveguides which exploit the vectorial nature of light to achieve extreme sub-wavelength confinement in high index dielectrics, enabling characteristic mode dimensions below…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nazmus Sakib , Judson D. Ryckman

Lensless cameras based on thin diffusers offer a compact alternative to conventional refractive imaging but rely on computational reconstruction, since the diffuser's point spread function (PSF) globally multiplexes every scene point across…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kerem Ekec , Uğur Teğin

Nonlinear interferometers allow spectroscopy in the mid-infrared range by detecting correlated visible light, for which non-cooled detectors with higher specific detectivity and lower dark count rates are available. We present a new…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-19 Chiara Lindner , Sebastian Wolf , Jens Kießling , Frank Kühnemann

Improvement of label-free far-field resolution of optical imaging is possible with prior knowledge of the object such as its sparsity or accumulated by a posteriori examination of a similar class of object1-4. We show that the sole…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Taeyong Chang , Giorgio Adamo , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Coherent diffractive imaging is unique as the only route for achieving diffraction-limited spatial resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the light. Recently, advances in coherent short…

Molecular fluorescence microscopy is a leading approach to super-resolution and nanoscale imaging in life and material sciences. However, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is often bottlenecked by system-specific calibrations and…

Millimetre-wave observations represent an important tool for Cosmology studies. The Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) technique has been proposed to map in three dimensions the specific intensity due to line (e.g. [CII], CO) emission, for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Usasi Chowdhury , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Martino Calvo , Johannes Goupy , Alessandro Monfardini

In recent years nanoscale coherent imaging has emerged as an indispensable imaging modality allowing to surpass the resolution limit given by classical imaging optics. At the same time, attosecond science has experienced enormous progress…

In this paper we show that the discrete Fourier transform can be performed by scattering a coherent particle or laser beam off a two-dimensional potential that has the shape of rings or peaks. After encoding the initial vector into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael N. Leuenberger , Daniel Loss , Michael E. Flatte , D. D. Awschalom

In this paper, we show by experiment that by covering a thin flat nonlinear lens on the sources, the sub-diffraction-limit observation can be achieved by measuring either the near-field distribution or the far-field radiation of the sources…

Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging biological samples with molecular specificity. In contrast, phase microscopy provides label-free measurement of the sample's refractive index (RI), which is an intrinsic optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yi Xue , David Ren , Laura Waller

Image denoising stands as a critical challenge in image processing and computer vision, aiming to restore the original image from noise-affected versions caused by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This process is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Peter Luvton , Alfredo Castillejos , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo