TY - GEN
T1 - Saturable scattering and its application to superresolution microscopy
AU - Chu, Shi Wei
AU - Su, Tung Yu
AU - Yonemaru, Yasuo
AU - Yamanaka, Masahito
AU - Zhuo, Guan Yu
AU - Lee, Ming Ying
AU - Oketani, Ryosuke
AU - Kawata, Satoshi
AU - Fujita, Katsumasa
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Recently, several superresolution methods have been demonstrated to revolutionize the way we access the nano-world. However, these techniques are based on switching or saturation of fluorescence, and consequently are limited by switching reversibility and photobleaching. Here we show first superresolution far-field imaging based on scattering, which is a universal phenomenon without bleaching. Our principal finding is that scattering from plasmonics particles is saturable. By extracting the saturated part, sub-80-nm resolution is achieved. This work not only expands the horizon of superresolution imaging from fluorescence to scattering, but also points out the possibility of resolution enhancement for all imaging modalities that utilize plasmon properties.
AB - Recently, several superresolution methods have been demonstrated to revolutionize the way we access the nano-world. However, these techniques are based on switching or saturation of fluorescence, and consequently are limited by switching reversibility and photobleaching. Here we show first superresolution far-field imaging based on scattering, which is a universal phenomenon without bleaching. Our principal finding is that scattering from plasmonics particles is saturable. By extracting the saturated part, sub-80-nm resolution is achieved. This work not only expands the horizon of superresolution imaging from fluorescence to scattering, but also points out the possibility of resolution enhancement for all imaging modalities that utilize plasmon properties.
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U2 - 10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600119
DO - 10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600119
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885449091
SN - 9781467364751
T3 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest
BT - 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2013
T2 - 10th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2013
Y2 - 30 June 2013 through 4 July 2013
ER -