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1 April 2021 Far-field super-resolution imaging by nonlinearly excited evanescent waves
Zhihao Zhou, Wei Liu, Jiajing He, Lei Chen, Xin Luo, Dongyi Shen, Jianjun Cao, Yaping Dan, Xianfeng Chen, Wenjie Wan
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Abstract

Abbe’s resolution limit, one of the best-known physical limitations, poses a great challenge for any wave system in imaging, wave transport, and dynamics. Originally formulated in linear optics, the Abbe limit can be broken using nonlinear optical interactions. We extend the Abbe theory into a nonlinear regime and experimentally demonstrate a far-field, label-free, and scan-free super-resolution imaging technique based on nonlinear four-wave mixing to retrieve near-field scattered evanescent waves, achieving a sub-wavelength resolution of λ  /  5.6. This method paves the way for numerous new applications in biomedical imaging, semiconductor metrology, and photolithography.

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Zhihao Zhou, Wei Liu, Jiajing He, Lei Chen, Xin Luo, Dongyi Shen, Jianjun Cao, Yaping Dan, Xianfeng Chen, and Wenjie Wan "Far-field super-resolution imaging by nonlinearly excited evanescent waves," Advanced Photonics 3(2), 025001 (1 April 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.3.2.025001
Received: 23 December 2020; Accepted: 11 March 2021; Published: 1 April 2021
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KEYWORDS
Super resolution

Image resolution

Near field

Imaging systems

Biomedical optics

Image processing

Interfaces

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