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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yang Jianlong , Zhang Haoran , Liu Chang , Gu Chengfu

In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on achieving the diffraction limit with large aperture telescopes. For a well matched focal-plane instrument, the diffraction limit provides the highest possible angular resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Bland-Hawthorn , A. Horton

Imaging through a single optical fiber offers attractive possibilities in many applications such as microendoscopy or remote sensing. However, the direct transmission of an image through an optical fiber is difficult because spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-29 Roman Barankov , Jerome Mertz

Orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) is a potential waveform for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems because it can manage communication and sensing metrics in one unified domain, and has better performance in high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Zhenyu Zhang , Qianli Wang , Gang Liu , FeiFei Gao , Pingzhi Fan

We present a computational method for full-range interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) under dispersion encoding. With this, one can effectively double the depth range of optical coherence tomography (OCT), whilst…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Jonathan H. Mason , Mike E. Davies , Pierre O. Bagnaninchi

Light scattering by tissue severely limits how deep beneath the surface one can image, and the spatial resolution one can obtain from these images. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the most powerful techniques for imaging deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Yongyi Zhao , Ankit Raghuram , Hyun K. Kim , Andreas H. Hielscher , Jacob T. Robinson , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Microscopy is one of the most essential imaging techniques in life sciences. High-quality images are required in order to solve (potentially life-saving) biomedical research problems. Many microscopy techniques do not achieve sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jan Aelterman , Jonas De Vylder , Hiep Luong , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

Optical imaging relies on the ability to illuminate an object, collect and analyze the light it scatters or transmits. Propagation through complex media such as biological tissues was so far believed to degrade the attainable depth as well…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-24 S. M. Popoff , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , A. C. Boccara , S. Gigan

Existing super-resolution methods of optical imaging hold a solid place as an application in natural sciences, but many new developments allow for beating the diffraction limit in a more subtle way. One of the recently explored strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Mateusz Mazelanik , Adam Leszczyński , Michał Parniak

The aim of this paper is to develop a mathematical framework for opto-elastography. In opto-elastography, a mechanical perturbation of the medium produces a decorrelation of optical speckle patterns due to the displacements of optical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 Habib Ammari , Emmanuel Bossy , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Laurent Seppecher

Quantum simulations with ultracold atoms typically create atomic wavefunctions with structures at optical length scales, where direct imaging suffers from the diffraction limit. In analogy to advances in optical microscopy for biological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-10 Sarthak Subhankar , Yang Wang , Tsz-Chun Tsui , Steven L. Rolston , James V. Porto

Improving the resolution of fluorescence microscopy beyond the diffraction limit can be achievedby acquiring and processing multiple images of the sample under different illumination conditions.One of the simplest techniques, Random…

We report a computational 3D microscopy technique, termed Fourier ptychographic diffraction tomography (FPDT), that iteratively stitches together numerous variably illuminated, low-resolution images acquired with a low-numerical aperture…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Chao Zuo , Jiasong Sun , Jiaji Li , Anand Asundi , Qian Chen

Optical microscopy offers a unique insight of biological structures with a sub-micrometer resolution and a minimum invasiveness. However, the inhomogeneities of the specimen itself can induce multiple scattering of light and optical…

Inferring brain connectivity and structure \textit{in-vivo} requires accurate estimation of the orientation distribution function (ODF), which encodes key local tissue properties. However, estimating the ODF from diffusion MRI (dMRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 William Consagra , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi

High-numerical-aperture optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables sub-cellular imaging but faces a trade-off between lateral resolution and depth of focus. Computational refocusing can correct defocus in Fourier-domain OCT, yet its…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yue Zhu , Shuichi Makita , Naoki Fukutake , Yoshiaki Yasuno

We introduce a novel laser-scanning optical microscopy technique that employs optical-frequency-comb (OFC) lasers. This method facilitates multimodal spectroscopic imaging by analyzing interferograms produced via a dual-comb spectroscopic…

Highest resolution imaging in astronomy is achieved by interferometry, connecting telescopes over increasingly longer distances, and at successively shorter wavelengths. Here, we present the first diffraction-limited images in visual light,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-21 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec , Paul D. Nuñez

The fast-growing field of soft matter research requires increasingly sophisticated tools for experimental studies. One of the oldest and most widely used tools to study soft matter systems is optical microscopy. Recent advances in optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-17 Taewoo Lee , Bohdan Senyuk , Rahul P. Trivedi , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We propose an optical encryption framework that can encrypt and decrypt large-sized images beyond the size of the encrypted image using our two methods: random phase-free method and scaled diffraction. In order to record the entire image…