Optical microscopy with super-resolution by liquid-immersed high-index microspheres

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8594, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Darafsheh, Arash ^a   Limberopoulos, Nicholaos I ^b   Derov, John S ^b   Walker, Dennis E ^b   Durska, Magdalena ^c   Krizhanovskii, Dimitry N ^c   Whittaker, David M ^c   Astratov, Vasily N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barium titanate glass; diffraction limit; microscopy; photonic nanojet; spatial resolution; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GLASS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROSPHERES; NANOPHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BARIUM TITANATE GLASS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; HIGH REFRACTIVE; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGHER INDEX; PHOTONIC NANOJETS; RESOLUTION CAPABILITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERRESOLUTION; TITANATE GLASS;

BARIUM TITANATE;

EID: 84878199715     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2005896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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