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20182026
most citedStructured illumination microscopy using a photonic chip

142 citations · 384 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

cs.CV2026

Motion-guided sparse correction enables expert-quality point tracking across diverse microscopy regimes

Leonidas Zimianitis, Pasindu Thenahandi, Kai Buckhalter +10

Tracking the dynamics of non-canonical biological systems in microscopy videos remains a persistent challenge. Both classical and learning-based trackers depend on expert-reviewed…

physics.optics2026

High-Sensitivity, High-Throughput Double Sagnac Lateral Shearing Quantitative Phase Microscopy and Tomography with Pseudo-Thermal Illumination

Pawel Goclowski, Maciej Trusiak, Balpreet S. Ahluwalia +1

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) enables label-free measurement of local optical path length variations, providing critical insight into the structure and dynamics of transparen…

physics.optics2026

High-Fidelity Single-Shot Quantitative Differential Phase Microscopy Using Pseudothermal Sagnac Interferometer

Pawel Goclowski, Hong Mao, Maciek Trusiak +2

In this letter, a high-fidelity single-shot differential quantitative phase microscopy (dQPM) method is presented to effectively image nearly transparent biological samples. The pr…

physics.optics2026

Piezoelectric MEMS Phase Modulator for Silicon Nitride Platform in the Visible Spectrum

Firehun T. Dullo, Paul C. Thrane, Nikhil Jayakumar +4

Active photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the visible spectrum are essential for on-chip applications, requiring low-loss waveguides with broad transparency and efficient, low-…

physics.optics2026

Lateral shearing optical diffraction tomography of brain organoid with reduced spatial coherence

Pawel Goclowski, Julianna Winnik, Vishesh Dubey +6

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a powerful technique for quantitative, label-free reconstruction of the three-dimensional refractive index (RI) distribution of biological s…

physics.med-ph2025

High Space-bandwidth Product Label-free Examination of iPSC-derived Brain Organoids via Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy

Mikolaj Krysa, Mikolaj Rogalski, Piotr Arcab +7

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a promising quantitative phase imaging technique that enables high-resolution, label-free imaging over a large field-of-view. Here, we pre…

physics.optics2025

Bayesian inference for precise and uncertainty-quantified single-shot widefield interferometric geometrical nanometrology

Damian Suski, Maria Cywinska, Julianna Winnik +5

Advanced geometrical nanometrology is critical for process control in semiconductor manufacturing, supporting applications in, e.g., photonic integrated circuits, nanoelectronics,…

physics.optics2025

Comparative study of microscopy methods to assess fish intestinal microvilli

Ankit Butola, Luis E. Villegas-Hernández, Dhivya B. Thiyagarajan +3

The primary function of intestinal microvilli is to increase the surface area of the intestinal lining to maximize nutrient absorption. This is especially important as fish, like o…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Gradient Optical Diffraction Tomography

Julianna Winnik, Piotr Zdankowski, Marzena Stefaniuk +4

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) enables non-invasive information-rich 3D refractive index (RI) reconstruction of unimpaired transparent biological and technical samples, cruci…

cs.LG2024

Thinking in Groups: Permutation Tests Reveal Near-Out-of-Distribution

Yasith Jayawardana, Dineth Jayakody, Sampath Jayarathna +1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the potential to power many biomedical workflows, but training them on truly representative, IID datasets is often infeasible. Most models instead…

physics.optics2023

Label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy

Nikhil Jayakumar, Luis E. Villegas-Hernandez, Weisong Zhao +6

The photo-kinetics of fluorescent molecules have enabled the circumvention of far-field optical diffraction-limit. Despite its enormous potential, the necessity to label the sample…

physics.optics2022★ 10 cited

Hilbert phase microscopy based on pseudo thermal illumination in Linnik configuration

Mikołaj Rogalski, Maria Cywińska, Azeem Ahmad +4

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is often based on recording an object-reference interference pattern and its further phase demodulation. We propose Pseudo Hilbert Phase Microsc…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Deep Optical Coding Design in Computational Imaging

Henry Arguello, Jorge Bacca, Hasindu Kariyawasam +10

Computational optical imaging (COI) systems leverage optical coding elements (CE) in their setups to encode a high-dimensional scene in a single or multiple snapshots and decode it…

physics.optics2022

Transmission Structured Illumination Microscopy using Tilt-mirror Assembly

Krishnendu Samanta, Azeem Ahmad, Jean-Claude Tinguely +2

We present experimental demonstration of tilt-mirror assisted transmission structured illumination microscopy (tSIM) that offers a large field of view super resolution imaging. An…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

From Hours to Seconds: Towards 100x Faster Quantitative Phase Imaging via Differentiable Microscopy

Udith Haputhanthri, Kithmini Herath, Ramith Hettiarachchi +5

With applications ranging from metabolomics to histopathology, quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is a powerful label-free imaging modality. Despite significant advances in fast m…

physics.class-ph2022

Surface acoustic waves inside polystyrene microparticles through photoacoustic microscopy

Abhishek Ranjan, Anowarul Habib, Azeem Ahmad +2

We demonstrate surface acoustic waves inside polystyrene microspheres of different sizes experimentally through photoacoustic microscopy and validate the experimental result with s…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

Differentiable Microscopy Designs an All Optical Phase Retrieval Microscope

Kithmini Herath, Hasindu Kariyawasam, Ramith Hettiarachchi +7

Designing new optical systems from the ground up for microscopy imaging tasks such as phase retrieval, requires substantial scientific expertise and creativity. To augment the trad…

physics.optics2021★ 14 cited

Label-free chip-based evanescent light scattering super-resolution and superior-contrast optical microscopy (cELS)

Nikhil Jayakumar, Firehun T Dullo, Vishesh Dubey +7

Chip-based Evanescent Light Scattering (cELS) utilizes the multiple modes of a high-index contrast optical waveguide for near-field illumination of unlabeled samples, thereby repos…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Demystifying speckle field quantitative phase microscopy

Azeem Ahmad, Nikhil Jayakumar, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) has found significant applications in the field of biomedical imaging which works on the principle of interferometry. The theory behind achievin…

physics.optics2021

Roadmap on multimode light shaping

Marco Piccardo, Vincent Ginis, Andrew Forbes +35

Our ability to generate new distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in recent years. At the most fundamental level, these light patterns are obtained by ingeniously com…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Study of waveguide background at visible wavelengths for on-chip nanoscopy

David A. Coucheron, Øystien I. Helle, James S. Wilkinson +4

On-chip super-resolution optical microscopy is an emerging field relying on waveguide excitation with visible light. Here, we investigate two commonly used high-refractive index wa…

physics.optics2020

High throughput spatially sensitive single-shot quantitative phase microscopy

Azeem Ahmad, Vishesh Dubey, Nikhil Jayakumar +7

High space-bandwidth product with high spatial phase sensitivity is indispensable for a single-shot quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) system. It opens avenue for widespread appli…

eess.IV2020★ 16 cited

Soft thresholding schemes for multiple signal classification algorithm

Sebastian Acuña, Ida S. Opstad, Fred Godtliebsen +2

Multiple signal classification algorithm (MUSICAL) exploits temporal fluctuations in fluorescence intensity to perform super-resolution microscopy by computing the value of a super…

eess.IV2020★ 2 cited

Simulation-supervised deep learning for analysing organelles states and behaviour in living cells

Arif Ahmed Sekh, Ida S. Opstad, Rohit Agarwal +5

In many real-world scientific problems, generating ground truth (GT) for supervised learning is almost impossible. The causes include limitations imposed by scientific instrument,…