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- Title
Marker-free and sub-diffraction limit optical imaging based on spatial filter.
- Authors
Sarmadi, Mohammad Reza; Karimian, Ghader; Rostami, Ali; Sanaat, Zohre; Fakhrjou, Ashraf
- Abstract
In this work, a fast and new sub-diffraction resolution-marker-free optical imaging method has been proposed to reconstruct the refractive index variation profile capable of quick capturing without mechanical sweeping, neither using fluorescent marker nor a high-vacuum requirement nor a quenching beam. To explain the main idea of the proposed method, one- and two-dimensional approaches are developed in this paper. The superposition of optical signals with a controlled phase array is used to create a tunable lens for refractive index reconstruction of an arbitrary target point on the test sample. By tuning the phase and using a harmonic generator (fifth harmonic in this work), it is possible to enhance the resolution of the proposed imaging system below the sub-diffraction limit (170 nm image resolution for 1000 nm wavelength). Utilizing High Harmonic Generation (HHG) may improve the imaging resolution tremendously down to a few tens of nanometers. The proposed method is numerically evaluated, and the resolution dependency of the imaging method on system parameters has been analyzed.
- Subjects
OPTICAL limiting; SPATIAL filters; OPTICAL images; IMAGING systems; HARMONIC generation; FIDUCIAL markers (Imaging systems)
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2023, Vol 129, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-023-08108-6