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Miniaturized microsphere-assisted microscopy

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Stéphane Perrin *
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Robin Pierron
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P. Gérard
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Paul Montgomery
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Sylvain Lecler
DOI:10.1063/5.0135346delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Microsphere-assisted microscopy is a sub-diffraction-limited imaging technique, which uses dielectric microspheres to collect the near-field information of an object. In this work, the bulk of the classical microsphere-based system is reduced by the simple introduction of a ball lens. The miniaturized imaging system has been designed and vertically assembled. Performance of the proposed dual-sphere system is quantified through numerical simulations and experiments. A theoretical impulse response with a full width at half maximum smaller than half of the wavelength is reached in air. As a proof of concept, 500-nm-period standard gratings and gold nanoparticles are observed without a classical objective, validating a sub-wavelength resolution with a high imaging quality and low aberrations over the field of view.

Journal

Applied Physics Letters cover
Applied Physics Letters
IF:
3.6
Papers:
10.4W
Citations:
17.8W

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centre national de la recherche scientifique (cnrs)
Scholars:
24.5W
Papers: 18.2W
Citations: 279