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Capturing biological specimens at large scales with sub-micron resolution is crucial for biomedical research, but conventional cameras often can't handle the pixel requirements. While most microscopes use motorized stages to move samples…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-28 Charlie Kersuzan , Aymerick Bazin , Amaury Badon

The mid-infrared (MIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum spans from 2- to 25-$\mu \mathrm{m}$, serving as a valuable tool for accessing rich chemical information. Functional groups, lipids, and other complex molecules can be analyzed…

Mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging has become an indispensable tool to spatially resolve chemical information in a wide variety of samples. However, acquiring three-dimensional data cubes is typically time-consuming due to the limited speed…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jianan Fang , Kun Huang , Ruiyang Qin , Yan Liang , E Wu , Ming Yan , Heping Zeng

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy overcomes blurring arising from light diffraction, allowing the reconstruction of fine scale details in biological structures. Standard methods come at the expense of long acquisition time and/or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Bastien Laville , Laure Blanc-Féraud , Gilles Aubert

A miniaturized full-frequency encoded illumination (mini-FEI) chip is presented for high-throughput super-resolution imaging using the spatial frequency shift (SFS) effect. A tunable full SFS scheme is achieved through propagating and…

Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biological imaging, however scattering from tissues strongly limits its applicability to a shallow depth. In this work we adapt a methodology inspired from stellar speckle interferometry, and…

Light microscopy allows observing cellular features and objects with sub-micrometer resolution. As such, light microscopy has been playing a fundamental role in the life sciences for more than a hundred years. Fueled by the availability of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Johannes Hohlbein , Benedict Diederich , Barbora Marsikova , Emmanuel G. Reynaud , Seamus Holden , Wiebke Jahr , Robert Haase , Kirti Prakash

Nonlinear optical microscopy provides elegant means for label-free imaging of biological samples and condensed matter systems. The widespread areas of application could even be increased if resolution was improved, which is currently…

Raman spectroscopy is widely used across scientific domains to characterize the chemical composition of samples in a non-destructive, label-free manner. Many applications entail the unmixing of signals from mixtures of molecular species to…

Significant progress in many classes of materials could be made with the availability of experimentally-derived large datasets composed of atomic identities and three-dimensional coordinates. Methods for visualizing the local atomic…

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is a powerful analytical method for not only the chemical identification of solid, liquid, and gas species, but also the quantification of their concentration. However, the chemical…

Achieving high spatial resolution is the goal of many imaging systems. Designing a high-resolution lens with diffraction-limited performance over a large field of view remains a difficult task in imaging system design. On the other hand,…

Sub-diffraction resolution imaging has played a pivotal role in biological research by visualizing key, but previously unresolvable, sub-cellular structures. Unfortunately, applications of far-field sub-diffraction resolution are currently…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Shwetadwip Chowdhury , Will J. Eldridge , Adam Wax , Joseph A. Izatt

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…

Multi-spectral computed tomography is an emerging technology for the non-destructive identification of object materials and the study of their physical properties. Applications of this technology can be found in various scientific and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Christian Kehl , Wail Mustafa , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Ulrik Lund Olsen

Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (RCM) is a non-invasive imaging technique used in biomedical research and clinical dermatology. It provides virtual high-resolution images of the skin and superficial tissues, reducing the need for physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Hong-Jun Yoon , Chris Keum , Alexander Witkowski , Joanna Ludzik , Tracy Petrie , Heidi A. Hanson , Sancy A. Leachman

Imaging specimens over large scales and with a sub-micron resolution is instrumental to biomedical research. Yet, the number of pixels to form such an image usually exceeds the number of pixels provided by conventional cameras. While most…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-03 Gaelle Recher , Pierre Nassoy , Amaury Badon

Linear super-resolution microscopy via synthesis aperture approach permits fast acquisition because of its wide-field implementations, however, it has been limited in resolution because a missing spatial-frequency band occurs when trying to…

I explain what is, what is not, and what is only sort of superresolution microscopy. I discuss optical resolution, first in terms of diffraction theory, then in terms of linear systems theory, and finally in terms of techniques that use…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-02 John Bechhoefer

Metasurfaces offer unconventional control of light to shape optical wavefronts within two-dimensional nanoscale structures. A nanostructured metallic thin film can establish an exclusive relationship between its surface structure and…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-11 Bo Xiao , Christian G. Carvajal , Sangeeta Rout