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Super-resolution Structured Illumination Microscopy (SR-SIM) enables fluorescence microscopy beyond the diffraction limit at high frame rates. Compared to other super-resolution microscopy techniques, the low photon fluence used in SR-SIM…

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) uses a set of images captured with different illumination patterns to computationally reconstruct resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we propose an alternative approach using a single…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Guanghan Meng , Laura Waller

Super-resolution optical microscopy is a rapidly evolving scientific field dedicated to imaging sub-wavelength sized objects, leaving its mark in multiple branches of biology and technology. While several super-resolution optical microscopy…

Imaging in thick biological tissues is often degraded by sample-induced aberrations, which reduce image quality and resolution, particularly in super-resolution techniques. While hardware-based adaptive optics, which correct aberrations…

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) reconstructs a super-resolved image from multiple raw images captured with different illumination patterns; hence, acquisition speed is limited, making it unsuitable for dynamic scenes. We propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Fanglin Linda Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Laura Waller

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) stands out as one of the most widely used microscopy techniques, thanks to its three-dimensional imaging capability and its sub-diffraction spatial resolution, achieved through the closure of a…

Recently, chiral structured illumination microscopy has been proposed to image fluorescent chiral domains at sub-wavelength resolution. Chiral structured illumination microscopy is based on the combination of structured illumination…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Shiang-Yu Huang , Ankit Kumar Singh , Jer-Shing Huang

While electron microscopy offers crucial atomic-resolution insights into structure-property relationships, radiation damage severely limits its use on beam-sensitive materials like proteins and 2D materials. To overcome this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zifei Wang , Zian Mao , Xiaoya He , Xi Huang , Haoran Zhang , Chun Cheng , Shufen Chu , Tingzheng Hou , Xiaoqin Zeng , Yujun Xie

In recent years there has been great interest in using deep neural networks (DNN) for super-resolution image reconstruction including for structured illumination microscopy (SIM). While these methods have shown very promising results, they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zachary Burns , Zhaowei Liu

In this paper, a compact and low-cost structured illumination microscope (SIM) based on a 2X2 fiber coupler is presented. Fringe illumination is achieved by placing two output fiber tips at a conjugate Fourier plane of the sample plane as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-19 Shiming Hu , Lei Liu , Yizheng Huang , Wenwen Liu , Qingquan Wei , Manqing Tan , Yude Yu

Sub-diffraction resolution imaging has played a pivotal role in biological research by visualizing key, but previously unresolvable, sub-cellular structures. Unfortunately, applications of far-field sub-diffraction resolution are currently…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Shwetadwip Chowdhury , Will J. Eldridge , Adam Wax , Joseph A. Izatt

This work introduces a novel reinterpretation of structured illumination (SI) microscopy for coherent imaging that allows three-dimensional imaging of complex refractive index (RI). To do so, we show that coherent SI is mathematically…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 Shwetadwip Chowdhury , Will J. Eldridge , Adam Wax , Joseph A. Izatt

Structured illumination can reject out-of-focus signal from a sample, enabling high-speed and high-contrast imaging over large areas with widefield detection optics. Currently, this optical-sectioning technique is limited by image…

For quality control in the factory, 3D-metrology faces increasing demands for high precision and for more space-bandwidth-speed-product SBSP (number of 3D-points/sec). As a potential solution, we will discuss Structured-Illumination…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zheng Yang , Alexander Kessel , Gerd Häusler

Far-field optical microscopy using focused light is an important tool in a number of scientific disciplines including chemical, (bio)physical and biomedical research, particularly with respect to the study of living cells and organisms.…

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) enables rapid, high-contrast optical sectioning of fresh tissue without staining or physical sectioning, making it promising for intraoperative and point-of-care diagnostics. Recent foundation and…

In this paper, we review spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), a common-path, phase-shifting interferometer, built onto a phase-contrast microscope, with white-light illumination. As one of the most sensitive quantitative phase…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-17 Xi Chen , Mikhail E. Kandel , Gabriel Popescu

We proposed a new approach, which is inspired by the method of super-resolution (SR) structured illumination microscopy (SIM) for overcoming the resolution limit in microscopy due to diffraction of light, for increasing the resolution of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Youdong Lang , Qingguo Xie , Chien-Min Kao

A method is proposed for assessing the temporal resolution of Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), by tracking the amplitude of different spatial frequency components over time, and comparing them to a temporally-oscillating…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-05 Abderrahim Boualam , Christopher J Rowlands

Three-dimensional (3D) fluorescence imaging provides a vital approach for study of biological tissues with intricate structures, and optical sectioning structured illumination microscopy (OS-SIM) stands out for its high imaging speed, low…