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For several centuries, far-field optical microscopy has remained a key instrument in many scientific disciplines including physical, chemical and biomedical research. Nonetheless, far-field imaging has many limitations: the spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-27 Lyubov V. Amitonova , Johannes F. de Boer

The resolution of far-field optical microscopes, which rely on propagating optical modes, is widely believed to be limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength $\lambda /2$ of the light used. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Christopher C. Davis , Jill Elliott , Anatoly V. Zayats

One of the main limitations for the resolution of optical instruments is the size of the sensor's pixels. In this paper we introduce a new sub pixel resolution algorithm to enhance the resolution of images. This method is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-12 Siamak Khademi , Ahmad Darudi , Zahra Abbasi

Visualization in the virtual image formed by dielectric microparticles has been shown to enable the distinction of objects that remain indistinguishable under direct observation. We perform the resolution analysis based on a full…

Microscopes and various forms of interferometers have been used for decades in optical metrology of objects that are typically larger than the wavelength of light {\lambda}. However, metrology of subwavelength objects was deemed impossible…

We propose and numerically demonstrate a technique for subwavelength imaging based on a metal-dielectric multilayer hyperlens designed in such a way that only the large-wavevector waves are transmitted while all propagating waves from the…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Taavi Repän , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Sergei V. Zhukovsky

Fluorescence microscopy is an important and extensively utilised tool for imaging biological systems. However, the image resolution that can be obtained has a limit as defined through the laws of diffraction. Demand for improved resolution…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 James H. Rice

The Rayleigh diffraction bound sets the minimum separation for two point objects to be distinguishable in a conventional imaging system. We demonstrate resolution enhancement beyond the Rayleigh bound using random scanning of a…

We report an experimental demonstration of a nonclassical imaging mechanism with super-resolving power beyond the Rayleigh limit. When the classical image is completely blurred out due to the use of a small imaging lens, by taking advantage…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Jane Sprigg , Tao Peng , Yanhua Shih

We propose an approach to far-field optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit. The proposed system allows image magnification, is robust with respect to material losses and can be fabricated by adapting existing metamaterial technologies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zubin Jacob , Leonid V. Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov

By benefiting from perceptual losses, recent studies have improved significantly the performance of the super-resolution task, where a high-resolution image is resolved from its low-resolution counterpart. Although such objective functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Urs-Viktor Marti , Max Basler , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

In recent years several methods to overcome diffraction limit in the far field microscopy have been demonstrated. Still the problem of superresolution is reliably solved only for fluorescent microscopy, giving a resolution of up to 20-30nm.…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-03 Yu. V. Miklyaev , S. A. Asselborn , K. A. Zaytsev , M. Ya. Darscht

The Rayleigh limit has so far applied to all microscopy techniques that rely on linear optical interaction and detection in the far field. Here we demonstrate that detecting the light emitted by an object in higher-order transverse…

The photo-kinetics of fluorescent molecules have enabled the circumvention of far-field optical diffraction-limit. Despite its enormous potential, the necessity to label the sample may adversely influence the delicate biology under…

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

Information about microscopic objects with features smaller than the diffraction limit is almost entirely lost in a far-field diffraction image but could be partly recovered with data completition techniques. Any such approach critically…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-17 Maria Bancerek , Krzysztof M. Czajkowski , Rafal Kotynski

Far-field super-resolution fluorescence microscopy has been rapidly developed for applications ranging from cell biology to nanomaterials. However, it remains a significant challenge to achieve super-resolution imaging at depth in opaque…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-01 Tengfei Wu , YoonSeok Baek , Fei Xia , Sylvain Gigan , Hilton B. de Aguiar

Though semantic segmentation has been heavily explored in vision literature, unique challenges remain in the remote sensing domain. One such challenge is how to handle resolution mismatch between overhead imagery and ground-truth label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic , M. Usman Rafique

Despite all the success with developing super-resolution imaging techniques, the Abbe limit poses a severe fundamental restriction on the resolution of far-field imaging systems based on diffraction of light. Imaging with contact…

We resolve the long standing controversy regarding the imaging by a planar lens made of left-handed media and demonstrate theoretically that its far field image has a fundamentally different origin depending on the relationship between…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-04 Nicholas A. Kuhta , Viktor A. Podolskiy , Alexei L. Efros