
NPOM Photodetector
Detector for near-field projection optical microscopy




Near-field Projection Optical Microscopy (NPOM), is a novel technique for super-resolution imaging without the need for surface scanning, as is usually required in existing methods such as NSOM (Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy). This means that besides for the elimination of a mechanical scanning mechanism, the full field of view is imaged simultaneously, and not point-by-point as in scanning-based techniques. Furthermore, by using compressed sensing, the number of projected patterns needed to decompose the spatial information of the object can be made smaller than the obtainable points of spatial resolution.
Articles
A. Sanjeev, D. Glukhov, R. S. Rafeeka, A. Karsenty, Z. Zalevsky, “Near-field Projection Optical Microscope (NPOM): A New Approach to Nanoscale Super-Resolved Imaging”, Nature Scientific Reports 13(1), 1-13 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41978-6