Improved microsphere-assisted super-resolution imaging by plasmon coupling

Yurong Cao; Songlin Yang; Jianguo Wang; Yong-Hong Ye

doi:10.1117/12.2535578

19 November 2019 Improved microsphere-assisted super-resolution imaging by plasmon coupling

Yurong Cao, Songlin Yang, Jianguo Wang, Yong-Hong Ye

Proceedings Volume 11186, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies II; 1118606 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2535578
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2019, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

We propose a simple and effective method to improve the super-resolution imaging properties of a microsphere by combining plasmon coupling with the microsphere lens. Plasmon coupling can be excited when random silver nanoparticles are deposited on a self-assembled hexagonally closed-packed (hcp) SiO2 microsphere array. The electric field enhancement is found to be strongly influenced by plasmon coupling, and the enhanced near-field information of the samples can significantly affect the resolution quality. Using BaTiO3 glass (BTG) microsphere-assisted optical microscopy, we can clearly resolve a 200-nm-diameter hcp microsphere array when nanoparticle-nanoparticle plasmonic interactions and nanoparticle-thin film plasmonic interactions are excited. On the contrary, when there are no plasmon interactions excited, the 200-nm-diameter silver-coated hcp microsphere array is completely unresolved.

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Yurong Cao, Songlin Yang, Jianguo Wang, and Yong-Hong Ye "Improved microsphere-assisted super-resolution imaging by plasmon coupling", Proc. SPIE 11186, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies II, 1118606 (19 November 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2535578

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