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We report an experimental demonstration of a nonclassical imaging mechanism with super-resolving power beyond the Rayleigh limit. When the classical image is completely blurred out due to the use of a small imaging lens, by taking advantage…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Jane Sprigg , Tao Peng , Yanhua Shih

Recent advances of deep learning lead to great success of image and video super-resolution (SR) methods that are based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). For video SR, advanced algorithms have been proposed to exploit the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Haochen Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

We utilize the photoexcitation of a semiconductor material as a 'reflectivity switch' for a broadband terahertz field. We show that judicious use of this switch enables temporal characterization of the THz field with spatial resolution…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-23 Daniel Krotkov , Eli Flaxer , Sharly Fleischer

Single-shot real-time characterization of optical waveforms with sub-picosecond resolution is essential for investigating various ultrafast optical dynamics. However, the finite temporal recording length of current techniques hinders…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Bowen Li , Shu-Wei Huang , Yongnan Li , Chee Wei Wong , Kenneth K. Y. Wong

Optical stellar interferometers have demonstrated milli-arcsecond resolution with few apertures spaced hundreds of meters apart. To obtain rich direct images, many apertures will be needed, for a better sampling of the incoming wavefront.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Arun Surya , Swapan K. Saha , Antoine Labeyrie

Ultrahigh peak power femtosecond laser pulses create extreme states of matter that are currently being probed with great interest. Plasma optics have been proposed for shaping and amplifying high-power pulses, but they are subject to huge…

Superfocusing confines light within subwavelength structures, breaking the diffraction limit. Structures with spatial singularities, such as metallic cones, are crucial to enable nanoscale focusing, leading to significant advancements in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Qianru Yang , Haotian Wu , Hao Hu , F. J. García-Vidal , Guangwei Hu , Yu Luo

Time-resolved illumination provides rich spatio-temporal information for applications such as accurate depth sensing or hidden geometry reconstruction, becoming a useful asset for prototyping and as input for data-driven approaches.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Diego Royo , Zesheng Huang , Yun Liang , Boyan Song , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Julio Marco

The use of structured ultrashort pulses with coupled spatiotemporal properties is emerging as a key tool for ultrafast manipulation. Ultrafast vector beams are opening exciting opportunities in different fields such as microscopy,…

Spatiotemporal control encompasses a variety of techniques for producing laser pulses with dynamic intensity peaks that move independently of the group velocity. This controlled motion of the intensity peak offers a new approach to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 D. Li , K. G. Miller , J. R. Pierce , W. B. Mori , A. G. R. Thomas , J. P. Palastro

For conventional imaging, the imaging resolution limit is given by the Rayleigh criterion. Exploiting the prior knowledge of imaging object's sparsity and fixed optical system, imaging beyond the conventional Rayleigh limit, which is backed…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-30 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

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

Since its first demonstration in 1995, terahertz time-domain imaging has attracted an increasingly growing interest for its ability to reveal spectral fingerprints of materials, probe changes in refractive index and absorption, as well as…

Lensless imagers based on diffusers or encoding masks enable high-dimensional imaging from a single shot measurement and have been applied in various applications. However, to further extract image information such as edge detection,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ze Zheng , Baolei Liu , Jiaqi Song , Lei Ding , Xiaolan Zhong , David Mcgloin , Fan Wang

High resolution transcranial ultrasound imaging in humans has been a persistent challenge for ultrasound due to the imaging degradation effects from aberration and reverberation. These mechanisms depend strongly on skull morphology and they…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Danai E. Soulioti , David Espíndola , Paul A. Dayton , Gianmarco Pinton

Superlenses made of plasmonic materials and metamaterials have been exploited to image features of sub-diffractional scale. However, their intrinsic losses impose a serious restriction on the imaging resolution, which is a long-standing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Fuxin Guan , Kebo Zeng , Zhaoyu Nie , Xiangdong Guo , Shaojie Ma , Qing Dai , John B. Pendry , Xiang Zhang , Shuang Zhang

Based on image encoding in a serial-temporal format, optical time-stretch imaging entails a stringent requirement of state-of-the- art fast data acquisition unit in order to preserve high image resolution at an ultrahigh frame rate ---…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-29 Antony C. S. Chan , Ho-Cheung Ng , Sharat C. V. Bogaraju , Hayden K. H. So , Edmund Y. Lam , Kevin K. Tsia

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) provides images of fluorescent objects at an enhanced resolution greater than that of conventional epifluorescence wide-field microscopy. Initially demonstrated in 1999 to enhance the lateral…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-09 James D. Manton

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just one radial dimension thus limiting the study of orientational…

Spatial coherence quantifies spatial field correlations over time, and is one of the fundamental properties of light. Here we investigate the spatial coherence of highly multimode lasers in the regime of short time scales. Counter…