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An experimental evidence of subwavelength imaging with a "lens", which is a uniaxial negative permittivity wire medium slab, is reported. The slab is formed by gratings of long thin parallel conducting cylinders. Taking into account the…

Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit is a long sought-after goal in various imaging applications, which requires usually an array of antennas or mechanical scanning. Here, we present an alternative and novel concept for this…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-10 Lianlin Li , Fang Li , Tiejun Cui , Yunhua Tan , Kan Yao

We realize a scanning probe microscope using single trapped $^{87}$Rb atoms to measure optical fields with subwavelength spatial resolution. Our microscope operates by detecting fluorescence from a single atom driven by near-resonant light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Emma Deist , Justin A. Gerber , Yue-Hui Lu , Johannes Zeiher , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Inspired by the capability of structured illumination microscopy in subwavelength imaging, many researchers devoted themselves to investigating this methodology. However, due to the free propagating feature of the traditional structured…

Terahertz imaging provides valuable insights into the composition and structure of objects or materials, with applications spanning security screening, medical imaging, materials science, and cultural heritage preservation. Despite its…

Far-field chemical microscopy providing molecular electronic or vibrational fingerprint information opens a new window for the study of three-dimensional biological, material, and chemical systems. Chemical microscopy provides a…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingwei Tang , Yubing Han , Danchen Jia , Qing Yang , Ji-Xin Cheng

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field of sparse optical objects. We show that it is sufficient to know that the object is sparse, and only that, and recover 100 nm features with the…

Imaging systems measuring intensity in the far field succumb to Rayleigh's curse, a resolution limitation dictated by the finite aperture of the optical system. Many proof-of-principle and some two-dimensional imaging experiments have shown…

Breaking the diffraction limit in microscopy by utilizing quantum properties of light has been the goal of intense research in the recent years. We propose a quantum superresolution technique based on non-classical emission statistics of…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-30 Osip Schwartz , Dan Oron

The resolution of photoacoustic imaging deep inside scattering media is limited by the acoustic diffraction limit. In this work, taking inspiration from super-resolution imaging techniques developed to beat the optical diffraction limit, we…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-15 Sergey Vilov , Bastien Arnal , Emmanuel Bossy

The Abbe diffraction limit, tied to the fundamental spatial bandwidth constraint imposed by any physical aperture, remains the primary barrier to achieving ultimate far-field optical resolution and precise light-matter interactions.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-27 Chengda Song , Jing He , Xi Xie , Qian Wang , Yijie Shen , Fangwen Sun , Guanghui Yuan

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of diffraction-limited superresolution, demonstrating that arbitrarily close point sources can be resolved in ideal situations. Precisely, we assume that the incoming signal is a linear combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Geoffrey Schiebinger , Elina Robeva , Benjamin Recht

We propose a new technique to obtain super-resolution images with radio interferometer using sparse modeling. In standard radio interferometry, sampling of ($u$, $v$) is quite often incomplete and thus obtaining an image from observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Mareki Honma , Kazunori Akiyama , Makoto Uemura , Shiro Ikeda

The resolution of far-field optical microscopes, which rely on propagating optical modes, is widely believed to be limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength $\lambda /2$ of the light used. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Christopher C. Davis , Jill Elliott , Anatoly V. Zayats

Optical microscopy has so far been restricted to superficial layers, leaving many important biological questions unanswered. Random scattering causes the ballistic focus, which is conventionally used for image formation, to decay…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-28 Ke Si , Reto Fiolka , Meng Cui

To overcome the resolution limit of conventional optics, near field imaging techniques using a negative index flat lens (NIFL) have been previously developed that amplify the evanescent components of the incident field. Here, a technique is…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-23 Wyatt Adams , Durdu Ö. Güney

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

The Rayleigh limit has so far applied to all microscopy techniques that rely on linear optical interaction and detection in the far field. Here we demonstrate that detecting the light emitted by an object in higher-order transverse…

A metamaterial hyperlens offers a unique solution to overcome the diffraction limit by transforming evanescent waves responsible for imaging subwavelength features of an object into propagating waves. However, the first realizations of…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jingbo Sun , Mikhail I. Shalaev , Natalia M. Litchinitser

Imaging of scenes using light or other wave phenomena is subject to the diffraction limit. The spatial profile of a wave propagating between a scene and the imaging system is distorted by diffraction resulting in a loss of resolution that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Ji Hyun Nam , Andreas Velten