Breaking the diffraction limit in molecular imaging by structured illumination mid-infrared photothermal microscopy

Pengcheng Fu; Bo Chen; Yongqing Zhang; Liangyi Chen; Hyeon Jeong Lee; Delong Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.3.036003

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 036003(2025)

Breaking the diffraction limit in molecular imaging by structured illumination mid-infrared photothermal microscopy

Pengcheng Fu^1、†, Bo Chen¹, Yongqing Zhang¹, Liangyi Chen², Hyeon Jeong Lee^3,4、*, and Delong Zhang^1、*

¹Zhejiang University, School of Physics, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Quantum Chips and Quantum Control, Hangzhou, China

²Peking University, Institute of Molecular Medicine, School of Future Technology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China

³Zhejiang University, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Hangzhou, China

⁴Zhejiang University, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science & Brain-Machine Integration, Hangzhou, China

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