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Super-localisation of a point-like emitter in a resonant environment: Correction of the mirage effect

Journal Article · · Inverse Problems and Imaging
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3934/ipi.2022054· OSTI ID:2421556
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. CMOR Department, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; OSTI
  2. ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut Langevin, France
  3. CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

In this paper, we show that it is possible to overcome one of the fundamental limitations of super-resolution microscopy: the necessity to be in an optically homogeneous environment. Using recent modal approximation results from [10, 7], we show, as a proof of concept, that it is possible to recover the position of a single point-like emitter in a known resonant environment from far-field measurements, with a precision two orders of magnitude below the classical Rayleigh limit. The procedure does not involve solving any partial differential equation, is computationally light (optimisation in \begin{document}$$ \mathbb{R}^d $$\end{document} with \begin{document}$ d $$\end{document} of the order of \begin{document}$$ 10 $\end{document}) and is therefore suited for the recovery of a very large number of single emitters.

Research Organization:
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0020345
OSTI ID:
2421556
Journal Information:
Inverse Problems and Imaging, Journal Name: Inverse Problems and Imaging Journal Issue: 0 Vol. 0; ISSN 1930-8337
Publisher:
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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