Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 2, 20220086(2022)

Simulation of the near-field focusing and the far-field imaging of microspherical lenses: A review

Ran Ye1,2, Chu Xu1, Fen Tang1, Qingqing Shang1, Yao Fan2, Jiaji Li2, Yonghong Ye1, and Chao Zuo2、*
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  • 1School of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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    (a) CHQ microlens-assisted super-resolution microscopy[19]; (b) SiO2 microsphere-assisted super-resolution microscopy[20]; (c) Scanning microsphere super-resolution microscopy[26]; (d) Self-assembled TiO2 particles for super-resolution microscopy[30]; (e) Liquid droplet-assisted super-resolution microscopy[31]; (f) Surface plasmon resonance-enhanced super-resolution microscopy[39]
    (a) A photonic nanojet and (b) a photonic hook; (c) Super-resolution imaging technology based on photonic hooks[47]
    (a) Schematic drawing of the microsphere imaging system used by Duan et al.; (b) The corresponding imaging simulation results[45]
    (a) Schematic drawing of the microsphere imaging system; (b) 2D simulation model based on microsphere imaging system; (c) The images of off-axis single point sources formed by microspheres; (d) The images formed by the microspheres for the two point sources distributed symmetrically along the optical axis; (e) The influence of the mode of the point sources (out of phase, in phase, incoherent) on the resolution of the microsphere imaging system[61]
    (a)-(d) The images of the two neighboring point sources formed by microspheres when the microspheres are on Mie resonance; (e)-(h) The images of the two neighboring point sources formed by the microspheres when the microspheres are not on Mie resonance[62]
    (a) The photonic nanojet of a microlens can be obtained by simulating its focusing performance for plane waves; (b) The point spread function of a microlens can be obtained by simulating its imaging properties for point sources[63]
    (a) The steps for the three-dimensional imaging simulation: (i) The near-field full-wave simulation, the near-to-far-field transformation, the far-field imaging simulation and (ii) the simulation for the formation of virtual images; (b) The simulated microsphere’s imaging performance for the two point sources with various gaps between them; (c) The simulation of microsphere’s imaging for metallic grating structures and (d) the corresponding simulation results show that the metallic lines with 75 nm separation can be resolved by the microsphere; (e) Microsphere imaging system has a higher resolution for metallic samples: (i), (iii) Metallic microstructures; (ii), (iv) Non-metallic microstructures with the same dimension[64]
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    Ran Ye, Chu Xu, Fen Tang, Qingqing Shang, Yao Fan, Jiaji Li, Yonghong Ye, Chao Zuo. Simulation of the near-field focusing and the far-field imaging of microspherical lenses: A review[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(2): 20220086

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    Category: Special issue-Computational optical imaging technology

    Received: Feb. 7, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 21, 2022

    The Author Email: Zuo Chao (ran.ye@njnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20220086

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