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Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise, super-resolution techniques remain…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephane Perrin , Keshia Badu , Paul Montgomery , Sylvain Lecler

Ptychography, a special case of the phase retrieval problem, is a popular method in modern imaging. Its measurements are based on the shifts of a locally supported window function. In general, direct recovery of an object from such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Anton Forstner , Felix Krahmer , Oleh Melnyk , Nada Sissouno

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

High-resolution imaging of ultracold atoms typically requires custom high numerical aperture (NA) optics, as is the case for quantum gas microscopy. These high NA objectives involve many optical elements each of which contributes to loss…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-01 Emine Altuntas , Ian B. Spielman

Traditional glass-based optics are typically optimized for narrow spectral bands, such as the visible (400-700nm) or shortwave infrared (1000-1800nm). While the emergence of VIS-SWIR sensors (400-1700nm) offers transformative potential,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishwanath Saragadam , Niki Nezakati , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Vivek Boominathan

Ptychography is an imaging technique that captures multiple overlapping snapshots of a sample, illuminated coherently by a moving localized probe. The image recovery from ptychographic data is generally achieved via an iterative algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Weijie Gan , Qiuchen Zhai , Michael Thompson McCann , Cristina Garcia Cardona , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Brendt Wohlberg

Non-destructive nano-imaging of the internal structure of solid matter is only feasible using hard X-rays due to their high penetration. The highest resolution images are achieved at synchrotron radiation sources (SRF), offering superior…

We report on the experimental realization of an atom optical device, that allows scanning of an atomic beam. We used a time-modulated evanescent wave field above a glass surface to diffract a continuous beam of metastable Neon atoms at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hilmar Oberst , Shigenori Kasashima , Victor I. Balykin , Fujio Shimizu

By profiting from recent developments in detector technologies, making it possible to access a stream of detection events with few-ns time resolutions, a new ptychographic workflow is established. This methodological framework, referred to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert , Arno Annys , Tamazouzt Chennit , Jo Verbeeck

Three-photon (3P) microscopy is getting traction due to its superior performance in deep tissues. Yet, aberrations and light scattering still pose one of the main limitations in the attainable depth ranges for high-resolution imaging. Here,…

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM), characterized by high-throughput computational imaging, theoretically provides a cunning solution to the trade-off between spatial resolution and field of view (FOV), which has a promising prospect in…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Shuhe Zhang , Aiye Wang , Jinghao Xu , Tianci Feng , Jinhua Zhou , An Pan

The wavefront measurement of a light beam is a complex task, which often requires a series of spatially resolved intensity measurements. For instance, a detector array may be used to measure the local phase gradient in the transverse plane…

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

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

We present an end-to-end automated workflow that uses large-scale remote compute resources and an embedded GPU platform at the edge to enable AI/ML-accelerated real-time analysis of data collected for x-ray ptychography. Ptychography is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Anakha V Babu , Tekin Bicer , Saugat Kandel , Tao Zhou , Daniel J. Ching , Steven Henke , Siniša Veseli , Ryan Chard , Antonino Miceli , Mathew Joseph Cherukara

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the visualization of objects hidden from direct view, with applications in surveillance, remote sensing, and light detection and ranging. Here, we introduce a NLOS imaging technique termed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Pengming Song , Qianhao Zhao , Ruihai Wang , Ninghe Liu , Yingqi Qiang , Tianbo Wang , Xincheng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Guoan Zheng

Birefringence, an inherent characteristic of optically anisotropic materials, is widely utilized in various imaging applications ranging from material characterizations to clinical diagnosis. Polarized light microscopy enables…

Understanding the interactions between microstructure, strain, phase, and material behavior is crucial in many scientific fields. However, quantifying these correlations is challenging, as it requires the use of multiple instruments and…

Accurate computational ptychographic phase reconstructions are enabled by fast direct-electron cameras with high dynamic ranges used for four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM). The availability of open software…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-01 Toma Susi

Optical approaches for wavefront shaping traditionally rely on phase modulation through holographic techniques. Shaping the phase determines a wave's diffraction and hence its intensity distribution in space. We instead show that shaping…