Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:15 pm
Hey LeonhardEuler That got my attention!-I wonder how expensive they will be! Thanks for posting.
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Re: Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:08 pm
Re: Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:37 pm
Assuming it even works, the resulting images have to be detected and stitched together by something other than the human eye, so it's not an optical microscope as we know it.
Re: Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:22 am
Discussion on this paper active on photomacrography
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum ... p274658
Summary:
it is a "pinhole contact illumination scanning" method. The sample is illuminated locally by very small pinholes built on the slide. So you can resolve details as small as the pinholes.
The slide is made of this SuperMetaLightShrinkingMaterialOfTomorrow, which is actually a defective multilayer mirror, too full of holes for other uses. Those holes are cleverly exploited as the scanning pinholes. Yes then it needs creative but tedious image processing to deconvolute and stack all the pinholes images.
The "ordinary microscope" needs to be equipped with an "ordinary" precision scanning laser illumination and other ordinary expensive stuff.
You may try to get a defective dielectric mirror as those dumped by the truckloads in China, US and Japan; and see if it does the trick and if the image processing time is bearable.
No light has been actually shrunk. No ordinary microscope started to see by itself. Maybe this method will find some specialistic application. The paper is actually nice and well written, just not so revolutionary.
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum ... p274658
Summary:
it is a "pinhole contact illumination scanning" method. The sample is illuminated locally by very small pinholes built on the slide. So you can resolve details as small as the pinholes.
The slide is made of this SuperMetaLightShrinkingMaterialOfTomorrow, which is actually a defective multilayer mirror, too full of holes for other uses. Those holes are cleverly exploited as the scanning pinholes. Yes then it needs creative but tedious image processing to deconvolute and stack all the pinholes images.
The "ordinary microscope" needs to be equipped with an "ordinary" precision scanning laser illumination and other ordinary expensive stuff.
You may try to get a defective dielectric mirror as those dumped by the truckloads in China, US and Japan; and see if it does the trick and if the image processing time is bearable.
No light has been actually shrunk. No ordinary microscope started to see by itself. Maybe this method will find some specialistic application. The paper is actually nice and well written, just not so revolutionary.
Re: Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:17 pm
The original article made it sound so much better 
Well, it won't be an "ordinary microscope" but with today's relatively cheap digital imaging and processing technologies maybe the technique will evolve into something useful, hopefully even affordable.
Well, it won't be an "ordinary microscope" but with today's relatively cheap digital imaging and processing technologies maybe the technique will evolve into something useful, hopefully even affordable.Re: Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:58 pm
I'd love to have this.
Greg
Greg