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Broadband super-resolution imaging is important in optical field. To achieve super-resolution imaging, various lenses from superlens to solid immersion lens have been designed and fabricated in recent years. However, the imaging is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Jue Li , Yangyang Zhou , Huanyang Chen

In this report, we demonstrate a new principle to improve the resolution of the acoustic microscopy, which is based on the sub-wavelength focusing of acoustic wave passing through an acoustically transparent mesoscale particle. In the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 I. V. Minin , Q. Tang , S. Bhuyan , J. Hu , O. V. Minin

We fabricated thin-films made from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with embedded high-index (n~1.9-2.2) microspheres for super-resolution imaging applications. To control the position of microspheres, such films can be translated along the…

The restrictions on the resolution of transmission devices formed by wire media (arrays of conductive cylinders) recently proposed in [Phys. Rev. B, 71, 193105 (2005)] and experimentally tested in [Phys. Rev. B, 73, 033108 (2006)] are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Mario G. Silveirinha

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

Wave-based imaging techniques use wavefield data from receivers on the boundary of a domain to produce an image of the underlying structure in the domain of interest. These images are defined by the imaging condition, which maps recorded…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Sarah Greer , Laurent Demanet

In the last decade, metamaterials-based superlenses, with a resolution below Abbe's diffraction limit, have emerged. To obtain a rough estimate of the resolution of such superlenses, imaging of two subwavelength slits, separated by a…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-03 B. D. F. Casse , W. T. Lu , Y. J. Huang , S. Sridhar

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Super-resolution imaging is vital for optical applications, such as high capacity information transmission, real-time bio-molecular imaging and nanolithography. Technology and method of super-resolution imaging have attracted much…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yangyang Zhou , Huanyang Chen

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

Abbe's resolution limit, one of the best-known physical limitations, poses a great challenge for any wave systems in imaging, wave transport, and dynamics. Originally formulated in linear optics, this Abbe's limit can be broken using…

The EM waves transmitted through a thin object with fine structures is observed, by microsphere located above the object. While the waves include both evanescent and propagating waves, the high resolution is obtained by the evanescent ones,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-01 Y. Ben-Aryeh

In the ELTs era, where the need for versatile and innovative solutions to produce very high spatial resolution images has become a major issue, the search of synergies with other science fields seems a logic step. One of the considered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-15 E. Quevedo , S. Velasco , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Rodríguez-Coira , A. Oscoz , R. L. López , J. Font , J. H. Brito , O. Llinas , S. Robaina , G. M. Callico , R. Sarmiento , R. Rebolo

We demonstrate achieving the far-field super-resolution imaging can be realized by using a planar hyperbolic metamaterial lens (PHML), beyond the Fabry-Perot resonance condition. Although the thickness of the PHML is much larger than…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-16 Cheng Lv , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang , Juncheng Cao

As a lens capable of sending images of deep sub-wavelength objects to the far field, the hyperlens has garnered significant attention for its super-resolution and magnification capabilities. However, traditional hyperlenses require extreme…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-18 Tao Hou , Huanyang Chen

Recently a hypothesis explaining the non-resonant mechanism of subwavelength imaging granted by a dielectric microsphere has been suggested. In accordance to the hypothesis, the far-field image of a subwavelength scatterer strongly coupled…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 R. Heydarian , C. Simovski

Although negative-refractive-index metamaterials have successfully achieved subwavelength focusing, image resolution is limited by the presence of losses. In this Letter, a metal transmission screen with subwavelength spaced slots is…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-25 Loic Markley , Alex M. H. Wong , Yan Wang , George V. Eleftheriades

We introduce a loss compensation method to increase the resolution of near-field imaging with a plasmonic superlens that relies on the convolution of a high spatial frequency passband function with the object. Implementation with incoherent…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-23 Wyatt Adams , Anindya Ghoshroy , Durdu Ö. Güney

Ultrasound localization microscopy has enabled super-resolution vascular imaging through precise localization of individual ultrasound contrast agents (microbubbles) across numerous imaging frames. However, analysis of high-density regions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-14 Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Oren Solomon , Matthew Bruce , Zin Z. Khaing , Hessel Wijkstra , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi

It has previously been demonstrated that model-based reconstruction methods relying on a priori knowledge of the imaging point spread function (PSF) coupled to sparsity priors on the object to image can provide super-resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Sergey Vilov , Bastien Arnal , Eliel Hojman , Yonina C. Eldar , Ori Katz , Emmanuel Bossy