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We analyze the far field resolution of apertures which are illuminated by a point dipole located at subwavelength distances. It is well known that radiation emitted by a localized source can be considered a combination of travelling and…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-25 Aziz Kolkiran , G. S. Agarwal

Ultrasonic superresolution images can be generated by means of (super) focusing acoustic beams to subwavelength dimensions or using algorithm-based methods. Here, we demonstrate that ultrasonic pulses which are superfocused by a ball-shaped…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Victor H. S. Santos , Everton B. Lima , Andre L. Baggio , Jose H. Lopes , Glauber T. Silva

Near-field imaging with terahertz (THz) waves is emerging as a powerful technique for fundamental research in photonics and across physical and life sciences. Spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved by collecting THz…

Atomic resolution imaging in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning TEM (STEM) of light elements in electron-transparent materials has long been a challenge. Biomolecular materials, for example, are rapidly altered when…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 Fehmi S. Yasin , Tyler R. Harvey , Jordan J. Chess , Jordan S. Pierce , Colin Ophus , Peter Ercius , Benjamin J. McMorran

Optical tomographic reconstruction of a 3D nanoscale specimen is hindered by the axial diffraction limit, which is 2-3 times worse than the focal plane resolution. We propose and experimentally demonstrate an axial super-resolution…

In the ELTs era, where the need for versatile and innovative solutions to produce very high spatial resolution images has become a major issue, the search of synergies with other science fields seems a logic step. One of the considered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-15 E. Quevedo , S. Velasco , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Rodríguez-Coira , A. Oscoz , R. L. López , J. Font , J. H. Brito , O. Llinas , S. Robaina , G. M. Callico , R. Sarmiento , R. Rebolo

We propose a vortex-like metamaterial device that is capable of transferring image along a spiral route without losing subwavelength information of the image. The super-resolution image can be guided and magnified at the same time with one…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hui Yuan Dong , Jin Wang , Kin Hung Fung , Tie Jun Cui

An integral equation is formulated to describe electromagnetic wave transmission through a sub-wavelength nano-hole in a thin plasmonic sheet in terms of the dyadic Green's function for the associated Helmholtz problem. Taking the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Norman J. M. Horing , Desire Miessein , Godfrey Gumbs

Subwavelength aperture arrays in thin metal films enable enhanced transmission of light and matter waves [for example, see T.W. Ebbesen et al., Nature (London) 391, 667 (1998) and E. Moreno et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 170406 (2005)]. The…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Kukhlevsky

Hallucinating high frequency image details in single image super-resolution is a challenging task. Traditional super-resolution methods tend to produce oversmoothed output images due to the ambiguity in mapping between low and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Libin Sun , James Hays

The vector electric-field Helmholtz equation, containing cross-polarization terms, is factored to produce both pseudo-differential and exponential operator forms of a three-dimensional, one-way, vector, wave equation for propagation through…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Laurence Keefe , Austin McDaniel , Max Cubillos , Ilya Zilberter , Timothy Madden

Leonhardt demonstrated (2009) that the 2D Maxwell Fish Eye lens (MFE) can perfectly focus 2D Helmholtz waves of arbitrary frequency, i.e., it can perfectly transport an outward (monopole) 2D Helmholtz wave field, generated by a point…

This paper develops a mathematical theory of super-resolution. Broadly speaking, super-resolution is the problem of recovering the fine details of an object---the high end of its spectrum---from coarse scale information only---from samples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Emmanuel Candes , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Near-field enhancement and sub-wavelength imaging properties of a system comprising a coupled pair of two-dimensional arrays of resonant nanospheres are studied. The concept of using two coupled material sheets possessing surface mode…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pekka Alitalo , Constantin Simovski , Ari Viitanen , Sergei Tretyakov

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is pivotal in revealing intricate micro- and nanoscale features across various research fields. However, obtaining high-resolution SEM images presents challenges, including prolonged scanning durations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Tom Reclik , Setareh Medghalchi , Philipp Schumacher , Maximilian Wollenweber , Talal Al-Samman , Sandra Korte-Kerzel , Ulrich Kerzel

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Super-resolution aims at increasing image resolution by algorithmic means and has progressed over the recent years due to advances in the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Convolutional Neural Networks based on a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 M. U. Müller , N. Ekhtiari , R. M. Almeida , C. Rieke

Super-resolution is generally referred to as the task of recovering fine details from coarse information. Motivated by applications such as single-molecule imaging, radar imaging, etc., we consider parameter estimation of complex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Dehui Yang , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

We develop a new method to calculate the evanescent wave, the subdivided evanescent waves (SEWs), and the radiative wave, which can be obtained by separating the global field of the image of metamaterial superlens. The method is based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

Breaking the diffraction limit is always an appealing topic due to the urge for a better imaging resolution in almost all areas. As an effective solution, the superlens based on the plasmonic effect can resonantly amplify evanescent waves,…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-28 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Chao-Hai Du , Pu-Kun Liu