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Optical imaging below the limit of light diffraction offers an unprecedented opportunity to study outlook, organization, interactions or in-situ functioning of sub-micrometer, highly transparent objects such as subcellular structures in…

Remote focusing of light in a graded-index medium via mode interference is demonstrated using exact analytical solutions of the wave equation. Strong focusing of light occurs at extremely long distances and it revivals periodically with…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-09 Nikolai I. Petrov

We proposed a method to achieve superresolved optical imaging without beating the diffraction limit of light. This is achieved by magnifying the ideal optical image of the object through higher-order spatial frequency generation while…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-08 Zhixiang Li , Jianji Liu , Guoquan Zhang

First discovered by Ernest Abbe in 1873, the resolution limit of a far-field microscope is considered determined by the numerical aperture and wavelength of light, approximately $\lambda$/2NA. With the advent of modern fluorescence…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yilun Li , Fang Huang

Optical super-resolution has been widely employed to beat spatial diffraction limit, which is often stated by Abbe-Rayleigh criterion. Analogously, we propose a frequency super-resolution method, which beats conventional spectral resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Tianzi Wang , Qian Cao , Peng Du , Wenxian Zhang

We propose a novel, to the best of our knowledge, approach to superresolution optical imaging by combining quantum optics and near-field optics. Our concept involves the utilization of single-photon quantum emitters to generate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Aziz Kolkiran

Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise, super-resolution techniques remain…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephane Perrin , Keshia Badu , Paul Montgomery , Sylvain Lecler

Essentially, the idea of improving the resolution of a given imaging system is to enhance its information capacity represented usually by the temporal-bandwidth (or, spatial-spectrum) product. This letter introduces the concept of…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-21 Lianlin Li , Fang Li , Tiejun Cui

The Abbe's diffraction limit restricts the resolution of an optical imaging and lithography system. Coherent Rabi oscillation is shown to be able to overcome the diffraction limit in both optical and atom lithography. In previous studies,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Anqi Zhang , Zeyang Liao , Rongxin Chen , Da-Wei Wang

Ultrasonic superresolution images can be generated by means of (super) focusing acoustic beams to subwavelength dimensions or using algorithm-based methods. Here, we demonstrate that ultrasonic pulses which are superfocused by a ball-shaped…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Victor H. S. Santos , Everton B. Lima , Andre L. Baggio , Jose H. Lopes , Glauber T. Silva

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

We resolve the long standing controversy regarding the imaging by a planar lens made of left-handed media and demonstrate theoretically that its far field image has a fundamentally different origin depending on the relationship between…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-04 Nicholas A. Kuhta , Viktor A. Podolskiy , Alexei L. Efros

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown that imaging with resolution well beyond the diffraction limit can be obtained with so-called superlenses. Images formed by such superlenses are, however, in the near field only, or a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephane Durant , Zhaowei Liu , Nicholas Fang , Xiang Zhang

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

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

We propose the use of the subwavelength localization via adiabatic passage technique for fluorescence microscopy with nanoscale resolution in the far field. This technique uses a {\Lambda}-type medium coherently coupled to two laser pulses:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan Luis Rubio , Daniel Viscor , Verònica Ahufinger , Jordi Mompart

We propose an approach to far-field optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit. The proposed system allows image magnification, is robust with respect to material losses and can be fabricated by adapting existing metamaterial technologies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zubin Jacob , Leonid V. Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

I propose a quantum imaging method that can beat the Rayleigh-Abbe diffraction limit and achieve de Broglie resolution without requiring a multiphoton absorber as the detector. Using the same non-classical states of light as those for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-22 Mankei Tsang

This work presents a new super-resolution imaging approach by using subwavelength hole resonances. We employ a subwavelength structure in which an array of tiny holes are etched in a metallic slab with the neighboring distance $\ell$ that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-07 Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang