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Entanglement is a defining feature of quantum mechanics that can be a resource in engineered and natural systems, but measuring entanglement in experiment remains elusive especially for large chemical systems. Most practical approaches…
Confocal imaging and phase imaging are powerful tools in life science research and industrial inspection. To coherently link the two techniques with different depth resolutions, we introduce an optical frequency comb (OFC) to microscopy.…
Nonlinear microscopy has evolved over the last few decades to become a powerful tool for imaging and spectroscopic applications in biological sciences. In this study, I$^2$PIE, a novel spectral phase control technique, was implemented in…
Endoscopy has been an indispensible tool in medical diagnostics, and yet the demands for reduced unit diameter and enhanced spatial resolution have steadily been growing for the accurate investigation of distal sites with minimal side…
We present a quantum secure imaging (QSI) scheme based on the phase encoding and weak + vacuum decoy-state BB84 protocol of quantum key distribution (QKD). It allows us to implement a computational ghost imaging (CGI) system with more…
Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a promising quantitative phase imaging technique that enables high-resolution, label-free imaging over a large field-of-view. Here, we present the first application of FPM for the quantitative…
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method of polarization-sensitive quantitative phase imaging using two photo detectors. Instead of recording wide-field interference patterns, finding the modulation patterns maximizing focused…
We present a single-image numerical phase retrieval method for Zernike phase-contrast microscopy (ZPM) that addresses halo and shade-off artifacts, as well as the weak phase condition, without requiring hardware modifications. By employing…
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) utilizes MRI signal phase to estimate local tissue susceptibility, which has been shown useful to provide novel image contrast and as biomarkers of abnormal tissue. QSM requires addressing a…
Lensless flexible fiber-bundle based endoscopes allow imaging at depths beyond the reach of conventional microscopes with a minimal footprint. These multicore fibers provide a simple solution for widefield fluorescent imaging when the…
I present a concise, first principles metrological framework for imaging dielectric biomaterials by probing the full phase space (Wigner) distribution of a quantum electromagnetic field. Building on a rigorous multilayer Maxwell and Cole…
Noninvasive optical imaging modalities can probe patient's tissue in 3D and over time generate gigabytes of clinically relevant data per sample. There is a need for AI models to analyze this data and assist clinical workflow. The lack of…
A single intensity-only holographic interferogram can records the full amplitude and phase information of optical field. However, current digital holography technologies cannot recover the lossless phase information from a single…
We report a novel lensless on-chip microscopy platform based on near-field blind ptychographic modulation. In this platform, we place a thin diffuser in between the object and the image sensor for light wave modulation. By blindly scanning…
Multi-core fiber-bundle endoscopes provide a minimally-invasive solution for deep tissue imaging and opto-genetic stimulation, at depths beyond the reach of conventional microscopes. Recently, wavefront-shaping has enabled lensless…
Modern microscopy techniques are developing towards high-resolution imaging, and tremendous progress has been made in past decades; however, the imaging of individual biological macromolecules at atomic resolution using short-wavelength…
Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) enables label-free measurement of local optical path length variations, providing critical insight into the structure and dynamics of transparent biological specimens. Here, a highly sensitive lateral…
Rapid, comprehensive, and accurate cell phenotyping without compromising viability, is crucial to many important biomedical applications, including stem-cell therapy, drug screening, and liquid biopsy. Typical image cytometry methods…
The retrieval of phases from intensity measurements is a key process in many fields in science, from optical microscopy to x-ray crystallography. Here we study phase retrieval of a one-dimensional multi-phase object that is illuminated by…
Imaging transparent samples remains an ongoing challenge in the study of unstained biological cells and material samples. Widely used methods trade off system complexity, cost and bulk, computational efficiency and information content. Here…