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We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a multifrequency excitation and detection scheme in apertureless near field optical microscopy, that exceeds current state of the art sensitivity and background suppression. By exciting the…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-30 H. Greener , M. Mrejen , U. Arieli , H. Suchowski

Spectral band replication (SBR) enables bit-efficient coding by generating high-frequency bands from the low-frequency ones. However, it only utilizes coarse spectral features upon a subband-wise signal replication, limiting adaptability to…

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Strong field transient grating spectroscopy has shown to be a very versatile tool in time-resolved molecular spectroscopy. Here we use this technique to investigate the high-order harmonic generation from SF6 molecules vibrationally excited…

A hemispherical multilayer wide-band (7-13 GHz) band-pass frequency selective surface (FSS) is reported. A new design technique based on a Goldberg discretization and unit cell scaling technique is introduced to accommodate the curved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Ali Tehranian , Jordan Budhu , Casey Perkowski , Lance Sookdeo , Kenneth H. Church , Garrett Harris , Carl Pfeiffer

We demonstrate mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum generation (SCG) with instantaneous bandwidth from 2.2 to 5 {\mu}m at 40 dB below the peak, covering the wavelength range desirable for molecular spectroscopy and numerous other…

It was proposed that a flat silver layer could be used to form a sub-diffraction limited image when illuminated near its surface plasmon resonance frequency [J. B. Pendry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3966 (2000)]. In this paper, we study the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-26 Avner Yanai , Uriel Levy

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is an important super-resolution based microscopy technique that breaks the diffraction limit and enhances optical microscopy systems. With the development of biology and medical engineering, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Xi Cheng , Jun Li , Qiang Dai , Zhenyong Fu , Jian Yang

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy due to the large absorption of molecular vibrational modes on one hand, and the ability to implement superior comb-based spectroscopic modalities…

In this work, we propose a structured illumination (SI) method based on a two-photon excitation (TPE) scanning laser beam. Advantages of TPE methods include optical sectioning, low photo-toxicity, and robustness in the face of sample…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Alex Bardales , Qinggele Li , Bingzhao Zhu , Xiaodong Tao , Marc Reinig , Joel Kubby

Developing high-performance, real-time architectures for LiDAR-based 3D object detectors is essential for the successful commercialization of autonomous vehicles. Pillar-based methods stand out as a practical choice for onboard deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Konyul Park , Yecheol Kim , Junho Koh , Byungwoo Park , Jun Won Choi

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) provides nanoscale chemical fingerprints alongside high-resolution topographic mapping of molecules, offering a powerful tool for materials discovery. However, TERS image datasets are challenging to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Harshit Sethi , Markus Junttila , Orlando J Silveira , Adam S Foster

We introduce a new method for generation of the phase screen samples with arbitrary spatial spectrum: Sparse Spectrum with uniform wave vectors (SU). Similar to the known Sparse Spectrum (SS) technique, it uses trigonometric series with…

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Interferometric scattering microscopy has been a very promising technology for highly sensitive label-free imaging of a broad spectrum of biological nanoparticles from proteins to viruses in a high-throughput manner. Although it can reveal…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Celalettin Yurdakul , Haonan Zong , Yeran Bai , Ji-Xin Cheng , M. Selim Unlu

Electromechanical response of solids underpins image formation mechanism of several scanning probe microscopy techniques including the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and electrochemical strain microscopy (ESM). While the theory of…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a well-known nonlinear spectroscopy method to probe electronic structure, specifically, in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. This work investigates the nonlinear dynamics of a strongly…

Textile pattern generation (TPG) aims to synthesize fine-grained textile pattern images based on given clothing images. Although previous studies have not explicitly investigated TPG, existing image-to-image models appear to be natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenggong Hu , Yi Wang , Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jie Song , Li Sun

Second-order nonlinear optical interactions, including second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum-frequency generation (SFG), can reveal a wealth of information about chemical, electronic, and vibrational dynamics at the nanoscale. Here, we…

Here, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate optical amplification and stimulated emission from a single optically pumped molecular tunneling junction of a scanning tunneling microscope. The gap between a sharp gold tip and a flat gold…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-09 K. Braun , A. M. Kern , X. Wang , H. Adler , H. Peisert , T. Chasse , D. Zhang , A. J. Meixner

Super-resolved far-field microscopy has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the structure of objects with resolution well below the diffraction limit of light. Nearly all super-resolution imaging techniques reported to date rely on…