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This paper investigates the shape reconstructions of sub-wavelength objects from near-field measurements in transverse electromagnetic scattering. This geometric inverse problem is notoriously ill-posed and challenging. We develop a novel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. H. Ding , H. Y. Liu , G. H. Zheng

Optical frequency combs have had a remarkable impact on precision spectroscopy. Enabling this technology in the x-ray domain is expected to result in wide-ranging applications, such as stringent tests of astrophysical models and quantum…

In this paper, a novel structural Luneburg lens with local resonators is proposed. This lens allows for the realization of subwavelength focusing in low frequency range. The lens is achieved by graded refractive index from the lens centre…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Liuxian Zhao , Xuxu Zhuang , Hao Guo , Chuanxing Bi , Zhaoyong Sun

Transient brain-wide neuroimaging on a microscopic scale is pivotal for brain research, yet current modalities face challenges in meeting such spatiotemporal requirements. Functional ultrasound (fUS) enables transient neurovascular imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yang Cai , Shaoyuan Yan , Long Xu , Yanfeng Zhu , Bo Li , Kailiang Xu

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…

Intra-operative measurements of tissue shape and multi/ hyperspectral information have the potential to provide surgical guidance and decision making support. We report an optical probe based system to combine sparse hyperspectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Jianyu Lin , Neil T. Clancy , Yang Hu , Ji Qi , Taran Tatla , Danail Stoyanov , Lena Maier-Hein , Daniel S. Elson

In this paper we explain a process of super-resolution reconstruction allowing to increase the resolution of an image.The need for high-resolution digital images exists in diverse domains, for example the medical and spatial domains. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Sebastien Lablanche , Gerard Lablanche

Super-resolution is the problem of recovering a superposition of point sources using bandlimited measurements, which may be corrupted with noise. This signal processing problem arises in numerous imaging problems, ranging from astronomy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Qingqing Huang , Sham M. Kakade

Ultrafast single-shot imaging techniques now reach frame rates of tens of tera-frame-per-second (Tfps) and long sequence depths but are often too complex for large-scale use, both in terms of image acquisition and reconstruction. We propose…

Multifocus microscopy enables recording of entire volumes in a single camera exposure. In dense samples, multifocus microscopy is severely hampered by background haze. Here, we introduce a scalable multifocus method that incorporates…

On the basis of suitable theoretical grounds, we study and propose Antennas for the generation, in Acoustics, of Non-Diffracting Beams of ultrasound. We start considering for instance a frequency of about 40 kHz, and foresee fair results…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami

Interferometry provides one of the possible routes to ultra-high angular resolution for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Sub-micro-arc-second angular resolution, necessary to achieve objectives such as imaging the regions around the event…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-31 G. K. Skinner , J. F. Krizmanic

Generation of super-resolution (SR) ultrasound (US) images, created from the successive local-ization of individual microbubbles in the circulation, has enabled the visualization of microvascular structure and flow at a level of detail that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Scott Schoen , Zhigen Zhao , Ashley Alva , Chengwu Huang , Shigao Chen , Costas Arvanitis

We propose a new wide-field imaging method that exploits the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance phenomenon to produce super-resolution images with an optical microscope equipped with a custom design polarization analyzer module. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Andrey Alexandrov , Takashi Asada , Fabio Borbone , Valeri Tioukov , Giovanni De Lellis

There is a great desire to extend ultrasonic techniques to the imaging and characterization of nanoobjects. This can be achieved by picosecond ultrasonics, where by using ultrafast lasers it is possible to generate and detect acoustic waves…

Audio Super-Resolution is a set of techniques aimed at high-quality estimation of the given signal as if it would be sampled with higher sample rate. Among suggested methods there are diffusion and flow models (which are considered slower),…

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Recent image diffusion transformers achieve high-fidelity generation, but struggle to generate images beyond these scales, suffering from content repetition and quality degradation. In this work, we present UltraImage, a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Min Zhao , Bokai Yan , Xue Yang , Hongzhou Zhu , Jintao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

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

We study propagation of light in square and hexagonal two-dimensional photonic crystals. We show, that slabs of these crystals focus light with subwavelength resolution. We propose a systematic way to increase this resolution, at an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Wang , Z. F. Ren , K. Kempa

High-energy, few-cycle laser pulses are essential for numerous applications in the fields of ultrafast optics and strong-field physics, due to their ultrafast temporal resolution and high peak intensity. In this work, different from the…