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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

Microsphere-based subwavelength imaging technique was first demonstrated in 2011. After nearly a decade of efforts, such technique has spawned numerous interests in fields such as laser nano-machining, imaging, sensing and biological…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-26 Bing Yan , Yang Song , Xibin Yang , Daxi Xiong , Zengbo Wang

Lensless digital holographic microscopy (LDHM) relies on interference between an unscattered reference wave and a weakly scattered object wave - an assumption that rapidly fails in turbid samples under multiple scattering. To overcome this…

Label-free nonlinear optical microscopy has become a powerful tool for biomedical research. However, the possible photodamage risk hinder further clinical applications. To reduce these adverse effects, we constructed a new platform of…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Geng Wang , Stephen A. Boppart , Haohua Tu

Super-resolution microscopes (such as STED) illuminate samples with a tiny spot, and achieve very high resolution. But structures smaller than the spot cannot be resolved in this way. Therefore, we propose a technique to solve this problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

A low-cost compound super-resolution lens, consisting of a Plano-Convex lens and a Microsphere lens (PCM), was proposed and demonstrated for subwavelength direct laser scanning writing application. The PCM lens can achieve a far-field…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-26 B. Yan , L. Yue , J. N. Monks , X. Yang , D. Xiong , C. Jiang , Z. Wang

Perfect lensing using negative refractive index materials and radiationless electromagnetic interference both provide extreme subwavelength focusing by "amplifying" evanescent wave components that are usually lost. This paper provides a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Reuven Gordon

Intracellular lasers are emerging as powerful biosensors for multiplexed tracking and precision sensing of cells and their microenvironment. This sensing capacity is enabled by quantifying their narrow-linewidth emission spectra, which is…

Super-resolution imaging with advanced optical systems has been revolutionizing technical analysis in various fields from biological to physical sciences. However, many objects are hidden by strongly scattering media such as rough wall…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-06 Dong Wang , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Cuong Dang

The question is considered about possibility of overcoming diffraction limit at device, named superlens. This device is a flat slab, executed from material with index of refraction n,equal n=-1. It is shown, what this device really can…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Veselago

For image segmentation, the current standard is to perform pixel-level optimization and inference in Euclidean output embedding spaces through linear hyperplanes. In this work, we show that hyperbolic manifolds provide a valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Mina GhadimiAtigh , Julian Schoep , Erman Acar , Nanne van Noord , Pascal Mettes

With recent developments in microscopy, such as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, far-field imaging at resolutions better than the diffraction limit is now a commercially available technique. Here, we show that, in the…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-29 Chris J. Lee , Klaus J. Boller

Owing to its capacity for unique (bio)-chemical specificity, microscopy withmid-IR illumination holds tremendous promise for a wide range of biomedical and industrial applications. The primary limitation, however, remains detection; with…

Full-field x-ray microscopy using x-ray objectives has become a mainstay of the biological and materials sciences. However, the inefficiency of existing objectives at x-ray energies above 15 keV has limited the technique to weakly absorbing…

Mid-InfraRed spectroscopy is a promising label-free technique that can offer insights into morphological and pathological alterations in biological tissues at the molecular level. Owing to the development of the Fourier Transform InfraRed…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Xiangyu Zhao , Yudong Tian , Jingzhu Shao , Chongzhao Wu

With a conventional lens sharpness of the image is always limited by the wavelength of light. An unconventional alternative to a lens, a slab of negative refractive index material, has the power to focus all Fourier components of a 2D…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 JB Pendry

Hyperspectral image (HSI) with high spectral resolution often suffers from low spatial resolution owing to the limitations of imaging sensors. Image fusion is an effective and economical way to enhance the spatial resolution of HSI, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Renwei Dian , Shutao Li , Bin Sun , Anjing Guo

This paper presents an innovative approach to computational acoustic imaging of biperiodic surfaces, exploiting the capabilities of an acoustic superlens to overcome the diffraction limit. We address the challenge of imaging physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Yuliang Wang

Optical metamaterials have the potential to control the flow of light at will which may lead to spectacular applications as the perfect lens or the cloaking device. Both of these optical elements require invariant effective material…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-09 Thomas Paul , Christoph Menzel , Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

Though semantic segmentation has been heavily explored in vision literature, unique challenges remain in the remote sensing domain. One such challenge is how to handle resolution mismatch between overhead imagery and ground-truth label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic , M. Usman Rafique