Resonant metamaterials for contrast enhancement in optical lithography

Photorefractive optical recycling for contrast enhancement

Optical processing via high-pass filtering is a well-established means of enhancing image contrast. However, this procedure is energetically inefficient, because the power associated with the low-spatial-frequency components of the image is ordinarily discarded. We demonstrate a means of performing contrast enhancement in an energy efficient manner, by recycling the optical power ordinarily dis...

Nonlinear optical contrast enhancement for optical coherence tomography.

We present a new interferometric technique for measuring Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) signals. Heterodyne detection is employed to increase the sensitivity in both CARS and SHG signal detection, which can also be extended to different coherent processes. The exploitation of the mentioned optical nonlinearities for molecular contrast enhanceme...

Optical field enhancement in nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials.

Nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials are proposed and demonstrated for achieving large optical field enhancement. The dependence of the enhanced electric field within the air slot on waveguide mode coupling and permittivity tensors of hyperbolic metamaterials is analyzed both numerically and analytically. Optical intensity in the metamaterial slot waveguide can be more than 25 ...

Contrast enhancement in optical coherence tomography

Molecular imaging is a powerful tool for studying disease progression and potential therapies in animals. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important biomedical imaging modality, filling the niche between ultrasound and microscopy. However, OCT suffers from an inherent lack of molecular contrast (the ability to distinguish a molecule of interest from others). This is because the scatteri...

Resolution enhancement optimization methods in optical lithography with improved manufacturability