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A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

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

Highest resolution imaging in astronomy is achieved by interferometry, connecting telescopes over increasingly longer distances, and at successively shorter wavelengths. Here, we present the first diffraction-limited images in visual light,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-21 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec , Paul D. Nuñez

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Imaging with optical resolution through highly scattering media is a long sought-after goal with important applications in deep tissue imaging. Although being the focus of numerous works, this goal was considered impractical until recently.…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-10 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy provides label-free imaging of biological tissues with unique contrast mechanisms, but its resolution is limited by the diffraction limit. Here, we present the first experimental demonstration of…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-28 Jungho Moon , Sungsam Kang , Jin Hee Hong , Seokchan Yoon , Wonshik Choi

Focusing waves inside inhomogeneous media is a fundamental problem for imaging. Spatial variations of wave velocity can strongly distort propagating wavefronts and degrade image quality. Adaptive focusing can compensate for such aberration,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Thomas Frappart , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy is a method of imaging non-periodic isolated objects at resolutions only limited, in principle, by the largest scattering angles recorded. We demonstrate X-ray diffraction imaging with high resolution…

We consider the problem of optical imaging of small nonlinear scatterers in random media. We propose an extension of coherent interferometric imaging (CINT) that applies to scatterers that emit second-harmonic light. We compare this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Liliana Borcea , Wei Li , Alexander V. Mamonov , John C. Schotland

Long baseline diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis technology by interferometry plays an important role in scientific study and practical application. In contrast to amplitude (phase) interferometry, intensity interferometry --…

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

We report on a new x-ray imaging method, which combines the high spatial resolution of coherent diffraction imaging with the ability of dark field microscopy to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. An x-ray objective serves to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Anders Filsøe Pedersen , Virginie Chamard , Carsten Detlefs , Tao Zhou , Dina Carbone , Henning Friis Poulsen

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

We introduce a practical digital holographic method capable of imaging through a diffusive or scattering medium. The method relies on statistical averaging from a rotating ground glass diffuser to negate the adverse effects caused by…

We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

We consider synthetic aperture radar imaging of a region containing point-like targets. Measurements are the set of frequency responses to scattering by the targets taken over a collection of individual spatial locations along the flight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

We present a computational method for full-range interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) under dispersion encoding. With this, one can effectively double the depth range of optical coherence tomography (OCT), whilst…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Jonathan H. Mason , Mike E. Davies , Pierre O. Bagnaninchi

Accurately estimating the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system requires solving free-space wave propagation, which entails evaluating a diffraction integral. This integral is traditionally computed numerically using Fast Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Nicholas Ganino , Qi Guo

Coherent diffractive imaging is a technique that recovers the sample image by numerically inverting its diffraction pattern. We propose a generalization of this method for the inversion of multi-wavelength data. Using this approach, we show…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-08 Erik Malm , Edwin Fohtung , Anders Mikkelsen