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Frequency upconversion technique offers an appealing approach for sensitive mid-infrared (MIR) imaging at room temperature. However, the spatial resolution of the upconversion imager has been notoriously restricted by the limited transverse…

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Deep learning based methods have recently pushed the state-of-the-art on the problem of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). In this work, we revisit the more traditional interpolation-based methods, that were popular before, now with the…

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This paper presents a comprehensive numerical analysis of super-resolution imaging using dielectric microparticles, employing the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method to elucidate the mechanisms that enable resolution enhancements…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-18 Arlen Bekirov , Zengbo Wang , Boris Lukyanchuk

For several centuries, far-field optical microscopy has remained a key instrument in many scientific disciplines including physical, chemical and biomedical research. Nonetheless, far-field imaging has many limitations: the spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-27 Lyubov V. Amitonova , Johannes F. de Boer

Single-pixel imaging has emerged as a key technique in fluorescence microscopy, where fast acquisition and reconstruction are crucial. In this context, images are reconstructed from linearly compressed measurements. In practice, total…

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3D super-resolution fluorescence microscopy typically requires sophisticated setups, sample preparation, or long measurements. A notable exception, SOFI, only requires recording a sequence of frames and no hardware modifications whatsoever…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-01 Pawel Szczypkowski , Monika Pawlowska , Radek Lapkiewicz

Point spread function (PSF) engineering of the emitter can code higher spatial frequency information of an image to break diffraction limit but suffer from the complexed optical systems. Here we present a robust strategy to simultaneously…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Chaohao Chen , Baolei Liu , Yongtao Liu , Jiayan Liao , Xuchen Shan , Fan Wang , Dayong Jin

Recent technological advances in cutting-edge ultrasensitive fluorescence microscopy have allowed single-molecule imaging experiments in living cells across all three domains of life to become commonplace. Single-molecule live-cell data is…

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Depth image super-resolution is an extremely challenging task due to the information loss in sub-sampling. Deep convolutional neural network have been widely applied to color image super-resolution. Quite surprisingly, this success has not…

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Diffusion models have been increasingly used as strong generative priors for solving inverse problems such as super-resolution in medical imaging. However, these approaches typically utilize a diffusion prior trained at a single scale,…

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Optical field localization at plasmonic tip-sample nanojunctions has enabled high spatial resolution chemical analysis through tip-enhanced linear optical spectroscopies, including Raman scattering and photoluminescence. Here, we illustrate…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-01 Chih-Feng Wang , Patrick Z. El-Khoury

The inherent non-linearity of intensity correlation functions can be used to spatially distinguish identical emitters beyond the diffraction limit, as achieved, for example, in Super-Resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging (SOFI). Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Yifan Chen , Chieh Tsao , Hendrik Utzat

Superresolution fluorescence microscopy techniques beat the diffraction limit, enabling ultra-high resolution imaging in biological physics and nanoscience. In all cases that have been studied experimentally, the resolution scales inversely…

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Following recent advancements in multimode fiber (MMF), miniaturization of imaging endoscopes has proven crucial for minimally invasive surgery in vivo. Recent progress enabled by super-resolution imaging methods with a data-driven deep…

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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

Single image super-resolution is an effective way to enhance the spatial resolution of remote sensing image, which is crucial for many applications such as target detection and image classification. However, existing methods based on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-22 Wenjia Xu , Guangluan Xu , Yang Wang , Xian Sun , Daoyu Lin , Yirong Wu

The problem of super-resolution is concerned with the reconstruction of temporally/spatially localized events (or spikes) from samples of their convolution with a low-pass filter. Distinct from prior works which exploit sparsity in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Pulak Sarangi , Ryoma Hattori , Takaki Komiyama , Piya Pal

In this paper we propose a dark-state-based trapping strategy to break the optical diffraction limit for microscopy. We utilize a spatially dependent coupling field and a probe laser field with temporal and spatial modulation to interact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Yuan Liu , Dongxiao Li

With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mechanisms of imaging by microspheres are debated in the literature, most…

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