{"id":1266,"date":"2021-07-07T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2021-07-07T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:33:35","slug":"analysis-of-deep-sub-micron-resolution-in-microsphere-based-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of deep sub-micron resolution in microsphere based imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ABSTRACT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on full wave simulations, \u223c0.3\u2009\u03bb and \u223c0.24\u2009\u03bb imaging resolutions can be achieved for incoherent transverse and longitudinal point dipoles, respectively, when the dipoles are on an aluminum oxide base with a fused\u00a0silica\u00a0microsphere as the imaging lens. These high\u00a0spatial resolutions\u00a0(better than 0.5\u2009\u03bb) can be attributed to almost 90\u00b0 light acceptance angle of the microsphere and the solid immersion effects from the microsphere\/base material. These simulation results can explain the \u22730.3\u2009\u03bb and \u22730.24\u2009\u03bb minimum resolvable center to center separation distance for thin metallic\u00a0nanostructures\u00a0and elongated metallic\u00a0nanostructures,\u00a0respectively, which is equal to \u22730.1\u20130.14\u2009\u03bb edge to edge distance observed in previous microsphere imaging experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.4902247.pdf\">1.4902247<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.4902247.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT Based on full wave simulations, \u223c0.3\u2009\u03bb and \u223c0.24\u2009\u03bb imaging resolutions can be achieved for incoherent transverse and longitudinal point dipoles, respectively, when the dipoles are on an aluminum oxide base with a fused\u00a0silica\u00a0microsphere as the imaging lens. These high\u00a0spatial resolutions\u00a0(better than 0.5\u2009\u03bb) can be attributed to almost 90\u00b0 light acceptance angle of the microsphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}