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Nonlinear imaging systems can surpass the limits of linear optics, but to date they have all relied on physical media (e.g. crystals) to work. These materials are all constrained by their physical properties, such as frequency selectivity,…

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A widely tested approach to overcoming the diffraction limit in microscopy without disturbing the sample relies on substituting widefield sample illumination with a structured light beam. This gives rise to confocal, image-scanning and…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-03 Alexander Duplinskiy , Jernej Frank , Kaden Bearne , A. I. Lvovsky

Memory-effect-based methods have been demonstrated to be feasible to observe hidden objects through thin scattering layers, even from a single-shot speckle pattern. However, most of the existing methods are performed with narrowband…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-20 Tengfei Wu , Chengfei Guo , Xiaopeng Shao

Night vision is the ability to see in low-light conditions. However, conventional night vision imaging technology is limited by the requisite high-performance infrared focal plane array. In this article, we propose a novel scheme of color…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-15 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

This paper investigates super resolution to reduce the number of pixels to render and thus speed up Monte Carlo rendering algorithms. While great progress has been made to super resolution technologies, it is essentially an ill-posed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Qiqi Hou , Feng Liu

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) overcomes the optical diffraction limit by folding high-frequency components into the baseband of the optical system, where they can be extracted and then repositioned to their original location in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Doron Shterman , Guy Bartal

Historically, the resolution of optical imaging systems was dictated by diffraction, and the Rayleigh criterion was long considered an unsurpassable limit. In superresolution microscopy, this limit is overcome by manipulating the emission…

In traditional optical imaging systems, the spatial resolution is limited by the physics of diffraction, which acts as a low-pass filter. The information on sub-wavelength features is carried by evanescent waves, never reaching the camera,…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-13 Oren Solomon , Yonina C. Eldar , Maor Mutzafi , Mordechai Segev

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

Imaging through scattering media is a longstanding issue in a wide range of applications, including biomedicine, security, and astronomy. Speckle-correlation imaging is promising for non-invasively seeing through scattering media by…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-13 Yuto Endo , Jun Tanida , Makoto Naruse , Ryoichi Horisaki

Conventional incoherent imaging based on measuring the spatial intensity distribution in the image plane faces the resolution hurdle described by the Rayleigh diffraction criterion. Here, we demonstrate theoretically using the concept of…

This chapter provides an overview of deep learning techniques for improving the spatial resolution of MRI, ranging from convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, to more advanced models including transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ziyu Li , Zihan Li , Haoxiang Li , Qiuyun Fan , Karla L. Miller , Wenchuan Wu , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Qiyuan Tian

Magnetic resonance (MR) images collected in 2D clinical protocols typically have large inter-slice spacing, resulting in high in-plane resolution and reduced through-plane resolution. Super-resolution technique can enhance the through-plane…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xin Wang , Sheng Wang , Honglin Xiong , Kai Xuan , Zixu Zhuang , Mengjun Liu , Zhenrong Shen , Xiangyu Zhao , Lichi Zhang , Qian Wang

Spectral imaging enables spatially-resolved identification of materials in remote sensing, biomedicine, and astronomy. However, acquisition times require balancing spectral and spatial resolution with signal-to-noise. Hyperspectral imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nguyen Tran , Rupali Mankar , David Mayerich , Zhu Han

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

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Incoherent imaging, including fluorescence and absorption microscopy, is often limited by weak signals and resolution constraints -- notoriously, Rayleigh's curse. We investigate how spatially structured quantum probes, combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Anthony J. Brady , Zihao Gong , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Saikat Guha

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) can achieve a $2\times$ resolution enhancement beyond the classical diffraction limit by employing illumination translations with respect to the object. This method has also been successfully…

Imaging beyond the diffraction limit barrier has attracted wide attention due to the ability to resolve image features that were previously hidden. Of the various super-resolution microscopy techniques available, a particularly simple…

The Rayleigh diffraction limit imposes a fundamental restriction on the resolution of direct imaging systems, hindering the identification of incoherent optical sources, such as celestial bodies in astronomy and fluorophores in bioimaging.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Danilo Triggiani , Cosmo Lupo

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us that it is impossible to determine simultaneously the position of a photon crossing a telescope's aperture and its momentum. Super-resolution imaging techniques rely on modification of the…

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