OAM beam generation in space and its applications: A review

Y Lian, X Qi, Y Wang, Z Bai, Y Wang, Z Lu - Optics and Lasers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, vortex beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted more
and more attention. The wavefront of the OAM beams is helical, the intensity at the center of …

The development of microscopy for super-resolution: Confocal microscopy, and image scanning microscopy

CJR Sheppard - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Optical methods of super-resolution microscopy, such as confocal microscopy, structured
illumination, nonlinear microscopy, and image scanning microscopy are reviewed. These …

Generating High‐Charge Optical Vortices Directly from Laser Up to 288th Order

Z Qiao, G Xie, Y Wu, P Yuan, J Ma… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐charge optical vortices, every photon of which carries an orbital angular momentum
with a large quantum number, are ideal sources for testing macroscopic quantum …

Heterochromatic Nonlinear Optical Responses in Upconversion Nanoparticles for Super‐Resolution Nanoscopy

C Chen, B Liu, Y Liu, J Liao, X Shan… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Point spread function (PSF) engineering by an emitter's response can code higher‐spatial‐
frequency information of an image for microscopy to achieve super‐resolution. However …

Exploring the potential of airyscan microscopy for live cell imaging

K Korobchevskaya, BC Lagerholm, H Colin-York… - Photonics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Biological research increasingly demands the use of non-invasive and ultra-sensitive
imaging techniques. The Airyscan technology was recently developed to bridge the gap …

Subtraction imaging by the combination of higher-order vector beams for enhanced spatial resolution

M Yoshida, Y Kozawa, S Sato - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that the spatial resolution in confocal laser scanning microscopy is
remarkably improved by simple image subtraction between images acquired by higher …

Improved ultrasound localization microscopy based on microbubble uncoupling via transmit excitation

J Kim, MR Lowerison, NVC Sekaran… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) demonstrates great potential for visualization of
tissue microvasculature at depth with high spatial resolution. The success of ULM heavily …

Resolution Enhancement and Background Suppression in Optical Super‐Resolution Imaging for Biological Applications

C Li, V Le, X Wang, X Hao, X Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, the spatial resolution of conventional far‐field optical imaging has been
constrained due to the diffraction limit. The emergence of optical super‐resolution imaging …

Resolution enhancement in confocal microscopy using Bessel-Gauss beams

L Thibon, LE Lorenzo, M Piché, Y De Koninck - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Laser scanning microscopy is limited in lateral resolution by the diffraction of light. We show
that we can obtain twenty percent improvement in the resolution of confocal microscopy …

Edge and contrast enhancement using spatially incoherent correlation holography techniques

V Anand, J Rosen, SH Ng, T Katkus, DP Linklater… - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Image enhancement techniques (such as edge and contrast enhancement) are essential for
many imaging applications. In incoherent holography techniques such as Fresnel …