Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow

BS Luk'yanchuk, R Paniagua-Domínguez… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Materials with relatively small refractive indices (n< 2), such as glass, quartz, polymers,
some ceramics, etc., are the basic materials in most optical components (lenses, optical …

Optical phenomena in mesoscale dielectric particles

OV Minin, IV Minin - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the last decade, new unusual physical phenomena have been discovered in
studying the optics of dielectric mesoscale particles of an arbitrary three-dimensional shape …

Roadmap on Label‐Free Super‐Resolution Imaging

VN Astratov, YB Sahel, YC Eldar… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Label‐free super‐resolution (LFSR) imaging relies on light‐scattering processes in
nanoscale objects without a need for fluorescent (FL) staining required in super‐resolved FL …

Microsphere-assisted microscopy

A Darafsheh - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Light microscopy is one of the most powerful techniques for nondestructive real-time
imaging of specimens at a resolution beyond the reach of human eyes. However, the spatial …

Dielectric microspheres enhance microscopy resolution mainly due to increasing the effective numerical aperture

A Darafsheh, V Abbasian - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Dielectric microspheres enhance microscopy resolution mainly due to increasing the effective
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[HTML][HTML] FEM-based modeling of microsphere-enhanced interferometry

T Pahl, L Hüser, S Hagemeier… - Light: Advanced …, 2022 - light-am.com
To improve the lateral resolution in microscopic imaging, microspheres are placed close to
the object's surface in order to support the imaging process by optical near-field information …

Super‐resolution microscopy by movable thin‐films with embedded microspheres: resolution analysis

KW Allen, N Farahi, Y Li, NI Limberopoulos… - Annalen der …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microsphere‐assisted imaging has emerged as an extraordinary simple technique of
obtaining optical super‐resolution. This work addresses two central problems in developing …

Resolution and reciprocity in microspherical nanoscopy: point-spread function versus photonic nanojets

AV Maslov, VN Astratov - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
This paper pertains to a long-standing debate about the quantification criteria and
mechanisms of optical superresolution in microsphere-based nanoscopy. Its super …

Resolution enhancement in quantitative phase microscopy

V Micó, J Zheng, J Garcia, Z Zalevsky… - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM), a technique combining phase imaging and
microscopy, enables visualization of the 3D topography in reflective samples, as well as the …

An inhomogeneous background imaging method based on generative adversarial network

X Ye, Y Bai, R Song, K Xu, J An - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A deep learning-based inversion algorithm is developed to solve the inhomogeneous
background inverse scattering problem (ISP). To alleviate the burden of nonlinearity and ill …