Abstract
Traditionally the resolution of conventional optical microscopes, which rely on optical waves that propagate into the far field, has been limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength of the light used. Several nonlinear optical microscopy techniques overcome this limit using photo-switching and saturation of fluorescence. Very recently it was demonstrated that considerable resolution enhancement may also be achieved in linear far-field microscopy by making use of recent progress in plasmonics, metamaterials and transformation optics. We will review theoretical foundations of these techniques and present our recent proof of principle experiments.
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Smolyaninov, I.I., Smolyaninova, V.N. (2019). Super-Resolution Microscopy Techniques Based on Plasmonics and Transformation Optics. In: Astratov, V. (eds) Label-Free Super-Resolution Microscopy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21722-8_13
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