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Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

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

The point of the paper is to show some limitations of geometrical optics in the analysis of subwavelength focusing. We analyze the resolution of the image of a line source radiating in the Maxwell fisheye and the Veselago-Pendry slab lens.…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-03 Sebastien Guenneau , Andre Diatta , Ross McPhedran

Sub-diffraction-limit resolution, or super-resolution, had been successfully demonstrated by recent theoretical and experimental studies for two-point sources with ideal equal-brightness and strict incoherenceness. Unfortunately, practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Abdelali Sajia , X. -F. Qian

Neural volumetric representations have become a widely adopted model for radiance fields in 3D scenes. These representations are fully implicit or hybrid function approximators of the instantaneous volumetric radiance in a scene, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuval Bahat , Yuxuan Zhang , Hendrik Sommerhoff , Andreas Kolb , Felix Heide

Hyperspectral imaging is a cutting-edge type of remote sensing used for mapping vegetation properties, rock minerals and other materials. A major drawback of hyperspectral imaging devices is their intrinsic low spatial resolution. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Leon Bungert , David A. Coomes , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Jennifer Rasch , Rafael Reisenhofer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

It is shown that the transparency of opaque material with negative permittivity exhibits resonant behavior. The resonance occurs as a result of the excitation of the surface waves at slab boundaries. Dramatic field amplification of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Fourkal , I. Velchev , C-M. Ma , A. Smolyakov

In this letter, we show how transformation optics makes it possible to design what we call conjugate metamaterials. We show that these materials can also serve as substrates for making a subwavelength-resolution lens. The so-called "perfect…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-30 Yadong Xu , Yangyang Fu , Lin Xu , Huanyang Chen

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown that imaging with resolution well beyond the diffraction limit can be obtained with so-called superlenses. Images formed by such superlenses are, however, in the near field only, or a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephane Durant , Zhaowei Liu , Nicholas Fang , Xiang Zhang

The restrictions on the resolution of transmission devices formed by wire media (arrays of conductive cylinders) recently proposed in [Phys. Rev. B, 71, 193105 (2005)] and experimentally tested in [Phys. Rev. B, 73, 033108 (2006)] are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Mario G. Silveirinha

This work presents a new super-resolution imaging approach by using subwavelength hole resonances. We employ a subwavelength structure in which an array of tiny holes are etched in a metallic slab with the neighboring distance $\ell$ that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-07 Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang

Super-resolution microscopy overcomes the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopy in spatial resolution. By providing novel spatial or spatio-temporal information on biological processes at nanometer resolution with molecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Tianjie Yang , Yaoru Luo , Wei Ji , Ge Yang

A sound wave travelling in water is scattered by a periodic assembly of air bubbles. The local structure matters even in the low frequency regime. If the bubbles are arranged in a face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice, a total band gap opens…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-07 Maxime Lanoy , Fabrice Lemoult , Geoffroy Lerosey , Arnaud Tourin , Valentin Leroy , John H. Page

We describe a novel method for blind, single-image spectral super-resolution. While conventional super-resolution aims to increase the spatial resolution of an input image, our goal is to spectrally enhance the input, i.e., generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Silvano Galliani , Charis Lanaras , Dimitrios Marmanis , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Much more image details can be resolved by improving the system's imaging resolution and enhancing the resolution beyond the system's Rayleigh diffraction limit is generally called super-resolution. By combining the sparse prior property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

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

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

High-resolution field localization in three dimensions is one of the main challenges in optics and has immense importance in fields such as chemistry, biology, and medicine. In order to generate the time reversed signal of a monochromatic…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 Asaf Farhi

Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited, which means that they cannot resolve features smaller than half the illumination wavelength. Under white light illumination, such resolution limit is about 250-300 nm for an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-26 Bing Yan , Zengbo Wang , Alan Parker , Yukun Lai , John Thomas , Liyang Yue , James Monks

We present the experimental observation of the superlensing effect in a slab of a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of tilted dielectric elements. We show that this flat lens can achieve subwavelength resolution in different frequency…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Salvatore Savo , Emiliano Di Gennaro , Antonello Andreone