Recent Advances in Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 216
Special Issue Editors
Interests: super-resolution optical microscopy; optical coherence tomography; label-free microscopy; biomedical imaging; metalens; superoscillation
Interests: super-resolution imaging, micro/nano processing and testing; 3D topography measurement; structured light illumination; wide-field microscopy; near-field microscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical microscopy has been fundamental to science for nearly four centuries, enabling the visualization of micro/nano structures. It remains a rapidly developing technique with the potential to be widely applied in many fields, including microelectronics, nanophysics and biotechnology. Nevertheless, due to the diffraction properties of light waves, optical microscopy suffers from a fundamentally limited resolution of ~λ/2, where λ relates to the illumination wavelength. Numerous efforts to overcome this resolution limitation have been made, with the aim of gaining further insights into the micro/nano world.
To further boost the impact of this cutting-edge field, this Special Issue aims to collect contributions from leading experts in the field, developing effective solutions to the challenges associated with super-resolution optical microscopy. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Super-resolution optical microscopy;
- Fluorescence microscopy;
- Phase imaging;
- 3D optical microscopy;
- Label-free microscopy;
- Optical coherence tomography;
- Microscopy systems.
Articles, perspectives, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Yi Zhou
Dr. Xi Liu
Dr. Zhongye Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical microscopy
- super resolution
- three-dimensional imaging
- phase imaging
- interferometry
- biophotonics
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